Friday, Sep 21, 2018
News Recap:
New Chinese HBV Pamphlets from HepCBC
There are some new HBV pamphlets from HepCBC in Chinese: HBV Chinese (Traditional) and HBV Chinese (Simplified). View the rest of our new and recently updated pamphlets here: http://hepcbc.ca/publications/pamphlets-posters/
Events:
Tuesday, Sept. 25th approximately 11 am - 3 pm is the Downtown Eastside ALLEY Health Fair, location is intersection of Hastings and Columbia S...
Here are some new HBV pamphlets from HepCBC in Chinese (Traditional and Simplified)
HBV Chinese (Traditional)
HBV Chinese (Simplified)
View the rest of our pamphlets here: http://hepcbc.ca/publications/pamphlets-posters/
Friday, August 24, 2018
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.
Chronic fatigue, mood alterations and cognitive impairment are frequent accessory symptoms of HCV-infection. Fatigue and mood alterations have also been observed in autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) and primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), but not in hepatitis B vi...
Chronic fatigue, mood alterations and cognitive impairment are frequent accessory symptoms of HCV-infection. Fatigue and mood alterations have also been observed in autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) and primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), but not in hepatitis B virus (HBV)-infection, thus indicating an autoimmune response as possible cause of HCV-infection associated encephalopathy.
Data, however, are sparse. This study aims to prove that HCV patients feature sim
HepCBC has just released new pamphlets
on HBV and HCV in Hindi and Punjabi:
HBV Punjabi
HBV Hindi
HCV Hindi
HCV Punjabi
Be sure to check out all our pamphlets and posters at: http://hepcbc.ca/publications/pamphlets-posters/
Patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection died an average of 14 years younger and had higher incidences of death from all causes compared with the general U.S. population, according to study results recently published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
“In the United States, about 1,800 death certificates annually list hepatitis B virus (HBV) as an underlying or contributing cause of death,” researchers wrote. “However, accurately quantifying mortal
For patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection (CHB), serum mac-2-binding protein glycosylation isomer (M2BPGi) is a reliable marker for assessing liver fibrosis, according to results published in Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology.
M2BPGi presents a noninvasive alternative to the standard invasive liver biopsy for assessing liver fibrosis in CHB. Furthermore, M2BPGi appears to correlate well with histologic stages of liver fibrosis.
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Friday, June 22, 2018
News Recap:
Canada:
All Kids Should Have a Hepatitis B Shot. Clinicians and researchers attending an international conference say all Canadian children should be vaccinated against hepatitis B starting at birth to prevent the development of potentially deadly liver disease later in life, a policy recommended by the World Health Organization. Currently, most provinces and territories immunize children against the liver-destroyin...
TORONTO — Clinicians and researchers attending an international conference say all Canadian children should be vaccinated against hepatitis B starting at birth to prevent the development of potentially deadly liver disease later in life, a policy recommended by the World Health Organization.
Currently, most provinces and territories immunize children against the liver−destroying virus when they are much older, including Ontario and Nova Scotia, which sugg
Switching to tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) is more efficacious than continuing entecavir (ETV) for achieving an optimal response in patients with chronic hepatitis B with a partial virologic response to ETV, according to a multicenter, open-label, randomized controlled study published in the Journal of Viral Hepatitis.
No studies have directly compared the efficacy of switching from ETV to TDF with that of continuing ETV; therefore, researchers pros
