Friday, June 1, 2018
News Recap:
HCV:
Large Study Confirms DAAs Protect Against HCC When Sustained Viral Response Achieved. Patients with hepatitis C virus who are successfully treated with direct-acting antiviral agents experience a dramatic reduction in their risk for liver cancer, new data show. However, the decrease is much lower for those diagnosed with cirrhosis before starting a DAA.
HCV Guidance Updated for Screening and Treating Key Popu...
While some diseases, such as cancer, elicit instant sympathy and caring, others, like hepatitis C, HIV/AIDS, and mental illness are often shrouded in shame, fear, and misunderstanding.
In fact, according to a survey by the World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA), more than 90 percent of countries report some degree of stigma and discrimination against those with viral hepatitis (primarily hepatitis C and B), which affects 325 million people globally. And, accordin
There is a remarkable drug which treats Hepatitis C. It’s expensive, and it works, but you can’t get it until you get really sick.
By Joe Fiorito Columnist
People get sick. We have health care. Those in need get treatment. What’s the problem? Money, faulty accounting and, in some cases, morality.
I know two women, Sheryl and Celeste. They both have Hep C, a progressive disease of the liver. The manner in which they got it doesn’t matter, although it
WELLAND — Carrie Honsinger isn’t afraid to admit she had Hepatitis C.
On World Hepatitis Day, July 28, Honsinger was present, sharing her story, at the Welland Market Square for the Niagara Health System Hepatitis C Care Clinic’s annual event promoting awareness of the virus that in Niagara is more prevalent than elsewhere in the province.
“To this day I still have no idea how I contracted it,” said the 46-year-old mother of two who now volunteers with t
“They treated me like I had leprosy,” said Monica Higgins, who says she was turned away from an Appletree clinic at Bank Street and Heron Road Thursday morning, which, coincidentally, was World Hepatitis Day.
Higgins booked an allergy test at the Appletree clinic several weeks ago after she started experiencing allergy symptoms for the first time.
She said the nurse began preparing Higgins for the test, which involves rubbing serums of 52 possible alle
July 28 is World Hepatitis Day, and it’s fitting to remind ourselves that Canadians’ lives are imperiled unnecessarily by hepatitis C — stemming from a lack of knowledge about the disease and from barriers to gaining access to treatment.
New research recently published in the Lancet indicates that "viral hepatitis is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide." In Canada, an estimated 330,000-plus people have been infected by hepatitis C; that’s ...
If you have lived a relatively clean life, you might think the odds of your suffering from hepatitis C might be as small as the odds of winning a lottery, but a study released last week indicates that just being a baby boomer is a risk factor.
This is a lottery you wouldn’t want to win. Getting tested for the virus, as recommended by Dr. Julio Montaner, director of the B.C. Centre of Excellence in HIV/AIDS, is a small price to pay for health and pea...
Results Support Routine HCV Testing for All People Born Between 1945 and 1964VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwired - March 31, 2016) - A study by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE), in partnership with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC), published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, found the peak growth of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) epidemic in North America among individuals born between 1945 and 1964 ("baby boomers") occurre
TORONTO -- Canadian researchers have determined the peak of the hepatitis C epidemic in North America occurred about 15 years earlier than previously believed, suggesting it wasn't youthful indiscretions that put baby boomers at a high risk for the disease.And that means, say researchers, that all those who belong to the post-Second World War generation should be screened for the potentially deadly infection, which can take up to 50 years to manifest sympt
