Friday, Sep 7, 2018
News Recap:
London Drugs Launches Potentially Life-Saving Hepatitis C Screening at Pharmacies in BC Lower Mainland.
An innovative and potentially life-saving hepatitis C screening program has launched at five London Drugs locations in the Lower Mainland. Patients can now undertake a simple finger prick test at the pharmacy to check if they have been exposed to hepatitis C virus (HCV) at some point in the past.
Hundreds of pati...
The Week in Review: July 27 – August 24, 2018
Friday, August-24-18
News Recap
Neuropsychiatric symptoms in hepatitis C patients resemble those of patients with autoimmune liver disease but are different from those in hepatitis B patients.
Drop in Aussies seeking hepatitis C cure.
Northern Vancouver Island VIRAL HEPATITIS Outreach Road Show Trip 2018 SlideShow: Part 2
FDA OKs First-Line Tx for Unresectable Liver Cancer: First new upfront t...
The Week in Review: March 31, 2017 – April 7, 2017
Friday, April-7-17
News Recap
Good news in Alberta, which has just signed a deal similar to those in BC, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Quebec! In the USA, Harvoni and sofosbuvir have been approved for pediatric use!!! It's about time! And both Italy and Brazil have taken steps to increase access to treatment for citizens who cannot afford the current medicines: Italy, by allowing importation of generics, ...
The Week in Review: Sep 23 – 30, 2016
Friday, September-30-16
This month the eViralHepatitis Review from Johns Hopkins University devoted a whole issue to Extrahepatic Manifestations of Hepatitis C: Screening and Management, which you can read about and access via our Weekly.Bull. As well lawyers representing some of the more than 500 victims in the pre-1986/post-1990 Hepatitis-C settlement group filed a submission last week in Vancouver requesting t...
Inside This Issue:
HCV-Related Cirrhosis Prevalence Increases over Time
CT Scans: Another Transmission Route
Studies Show that Curing Advanced Hepatitis C Reverses the Need for Transplant
HepCBC Participates in Review of BC Centre For Excellence in HIV/Aids
Zaxine™ (rifaximin) Not Covered in BC
New Clinical Digest on Dietary Supplements
Outreach Road Trip Photos Now Online
The $1500 Cure
Are You a Potential HepCBC Board Membe...
Inside This Issue:
Treatment by Primary Care Physicians and Nurse Practitioners?
Two Epidemics, Two Cascades of Care?
HBV & HCC Reactivation
Request for Patient Input for Sofosbuvir/Velpatasvir
Sunvepra Gets NOC
Expert Dr’s Statement Shocks
Generics Equivalent in Efficacy and Safety to Name-Brand DAAs
Watch for Bus Ads in Northern BC
GT1a Peaked in 1950s: New Research
Money Grab from Blood Scandal Victim Fund
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HepCBC’s MONTHLY NEWSLETTER, the hepc.bull, has been “Canada’s hepatitis C journal” since the late 1990’s and was published nonstop since 2001. The last print edition was Issue #200: Summer, 2016.
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