All the news Showing 10 of 842 articlesGet an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources Treatment for people living with HIV and HCV People with HIV do not have higher liver disease risk after hepatitis C treatment Keith Alcorn / 28 August 2020 People living with HIV do not have a higher risk of liver-related complications or death from liver disease after hepatitis C treatment with direct-acting antivirals, researchers from the French HEPAVIH cohort reported this ... Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) Liver cancer risk after hepatitis C cure is lower in people with HIV Keith Alcorn / 24 August 2020 People with HIV who were cured of hepatitis C were less likely than HIV-negative people to develop hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC – liver cancer) in the three-and-a-half years after completing hepatitis C treatment, Spanish ... Sex between men Condomless sex sufficient to pass on hepatitis C between men Keith Alcorn / 24 August 2020 Hepatitis C transmission during anal sex can take place without bleeding, trauma or sharing of injecting equipment and exposure to semen is likely to be enough for the virus to ... Coronavirus EASL updates guidance on COVID-19 in liver disease patients Keith Alcorn / 11 August 2020 The European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) and European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) have updated their guidance on chronic liver disease and COVID-19, issued in ... Hepatitis C elimination Is hepatitis elimination feasible by 2030? Keith Alcorn / 06 August 2020 Major gaps in hepatitis elimination efforts throughout the world threaten achievement of the World Health Organization (WHO) targets for achieving substantial reductions in new infections and deaths due to viral hepatitis by 2030, ... Hepatitis C elimination COVID-19 slows hepatitis elimination Keith Alcorn / 04 August 2020 Hepatitis elimination efforts are being severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in many settings, results of a 32-country survey by the World Hepatitis Alliance show. The survey of civil society hepatitis organisations and frontline ... Mother to child New WHO guidance on preventing mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B Keith Alcorn / 28 July 2020 Pregnant women who test positive for hepatitis B infection and have a high level of hepatitis B virus (HBV) in the blood should receive preventive antiviral therapy with tenofovir from the 28th week ... Hepatitis C Hepatitis C doubles the risk of head and neck cancers Keith Alcorn / 21 July 2020 Hepatitis C infection doubles the risk of developing cancers of the oral cavity, upper throat and larynx, a meta-analysis of eight studies has shown and the study authors say that people with ... Coronavirus How often does COVID-19 cause liver disorders? Keith Alcorn / 21 July 2020 Increases in liver enzymes are common in people with COVID-19 and occur more frequently in people with severe COVID-19, a meta-analysis of studies published in Hepatology International shows. Most liver enzyme elevations were ... Coronavirus Hepatitis C drugs may offer an inexpensive treatment option for COVID-19 Liz Highleyman / 20 July 2020 Sofosbuvir and daclatasvir, two antiviral drugs used to treat hepatitis C, were associated with faster recovery, shorter hospitalisation and improve survival among people with moderate or severe COVID-19, researchers reported this month at the ... ← Prev1...34567...85Next → 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