All the news Showing 10 of 43 articles from: Screening and testing policyGet an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources Testing for hepatitis C at community pharmacies improves uptake of testing and treatment Keith Alcorn / 18 August 2022 Reaching people who receive methadone opioid agonist therapy with the offer of an on-site hepatitis C test through their dispensing pharmacy greatly improved the uptake of hepatitis C testing and treatment when ... Self-sampling for hepatitis C improves diagnosis rate in the Netherlands Keith Alcorn / 01 June 2022 Online risk assessment for hepatitis C and home-based sampling for HCV-RNA testing proved acceptable, easy to use and resulted in a high rate of diagnosis of chronic hepatitis C infections among gay ... UK emergency department screening for viral hepatitis feasible and acceptable Keith Alcorn / 04 May 2022 Emergency department opt-out screening for viral hepatitis and linkage to care is feasible and resulted in high uptake of testing, researchers from a major London hospital report in the Journal of Viral Hepatitis. But ... Hepatitis C prevalence down by 40% since 2015 in England Keith Alcorn / 11 March 2022 The prevalence of hepatitis C in England fell by almost 40% between 2015 and 2020 and deaths due to the virus fell by 35% in the same period, the UK Health Security Agency ... Universal hepatitis C screening in pregnancy improves case detection Keith Alcorn / 23 February 2022 Implementing universal testing for hepatitis C during pregnancy improved case detection 7.5-fold compared to the previous regime of risk-based screening, a research group from the University of Pittsburgh reported last week at the ... People with diabetes or high alcohol consumption at higher risk of late hepatitis C diagnosis Keith Alcorn / 24 September 2021 People with diabetes and those with hazardous alcohol intake were significantly more likely to remain undiagnosed with hepatitis C and present with advanced fibrosis, a large number of people diagnosed with hepatitis ... Testing COVID-19 patients for viral hepatitis does not detect numerous undiagnosed cases Keith Alcorn / 19 September 2021 Screening people admitted to hospital with COVID-19 for hepatitis C or hepatitis B does not lead to detection of a large number of undiagnosed infections and is likely to be of limited ... Reflex testing successfully uncovers hidden hepatitis C cases in Scotland Keith Alcorn / 29 June 2021 Automatic viral hepatitis testing of blood samples from patients with abnormal liver function has the potential to identify “hard to reach” people with hepatitis B or C who have no known risk ... COVID-19 reduced US hepatitis C testing, diagnosis and treatment Keith Alcorn / 21 May 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic severely reduced hepatitis C testing, diagnosis and treatment in the United States during 2020, a study by Quest Diagnostics and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ... Hepatitis C testing in gay and bisexual men with HIV below target, US study finds Keith Alcorn / 27 April 2021 Testing for hepatitis C among gay and bisexual men with HIV who are at higher risk of acquiring hepatitis C is falling short of recommendations, a study of a large US cohort ... ← First12345Next → Other pages in this section Latest news All the news Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Hepatitis C Hepatitis D Hepatitis E Coronavirus NAFLD Treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma Transmission, epidemiology and prevention Transfusion and medical procedures Injecting drug use Mother to child Sexual transmission Non-medical blood transfer HBV vaccination Epidemiology Screening and testing policy Health services, policy and advocacy Social issues Conference news Email bulletin archive