All the news Showing 10 of 814 articlesGet an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources NAFLD Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease affects a quarter of lean people living with HIV Michael Carter / 13 May 2020 A quarter of people living with HIV with normal body weight have non-alcoholic-fatty liver disease (NAFLD), Italian and Canadian investigators report in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Risk factors were older age, ... Treatment in acute infection Short-course treatment for recent hepatitis C: some courses may be too short Keith Alcorn / 07 May 2020 An eight-week course of grazoprevir/elbasvir (Zepatier) achieved a high cure rate in people recently infected with hepatitis C, but another study found that a six-week course of sofosbuvir/velpatasvir (Epclusa) resulted in an inferior ... Treatment for people living with HIV and HCV Hepatitis C treatment in adolescents and young people late but successful, Spanish study shows Keith Alcorn / 05 May 2020 Treatment for hepatitis C was highly effective in clearing the virus in young people co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C through vertical infection, despite advanced fibrosis in one-third, Spanish researchers report in the ... Liver transplants Liver transplants and COVID-19 Keith Alcorn / 28 April 2020 Liver specialists in New York report a high frequency of severe COVID-19 cases in organ transplant recipients who became infected with SARS-CoV-2, while Italian specialists report that 15 of 17 patients who underwent ... Coronavirus Fatty liver disease may increase risk of severe COVID-19 disease Keith Alcorn / 27 April 2020 A preliminary analysis of people admitted to hospital in China with COVID-19 symptoms shows that people with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) were six times more likely to progress to severe COVID-19 ... Sexual transmission Hepatitis C spreading rapidly among HIV-positive MSM in Thailand and chemsex is a key risk factor Michael Carter / 27 April 2020 Hepatitis C is spreading rapidly among HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) in Bangkok and is associated with use of crystal methamphetamine, research presented to the recent Conference ... Treatment for people who use drugs Directly observed treatment for hepatitis C highly effective in people who inject drugs Keith Alcorn / 14 April 2020 Directly observed treatment for hepatitis C achieved a very high cure rate in people who inject drugs, an Austrian study carried out in pharmacies and drugs projects offering opioid substitution therapy has reported. The ... Sex between men Hepatitis C spreading through same networks and practices in HIV-positive and HIV-negative gay and bisexual men in England Keith Alcorn / 09 April 2020 Gay and bisexual men who acquire hepatitis C infection while using pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention are part of the same sexual networks and have the same risk factors as HIV-positive ... Coronavirus Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) and viral hepatitis: sources of information Keith Alcorn / 26 March 2020 COVID-19 is a new illness that can affect your lungs and airways. It's caused by a virus called coronavirus. The most common symptoms of coronavirus are a fever (high temperature) and/or dry cough, shortness of ... Coronavirus Liver specialists offer guidance on COVID-19 risks in liver patients Keith Alcorn / 25 March 2020 The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) has issued preliminary guidance for liver specialists on managing COVID-19 in patients with liver disease, based on data published up to late March. COVID-19 ... ← Prev1...23456...82Next → 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 Health services, policy and advocacy Social issues Conference news Noticeboard Email bulletins News feeds