Hep A News

Tibotec begins hepatitis C patient enrolment
Hays Pharma, UK - 4 hours ago
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) company Tibotec has begun enrolling patients on to a clinical study of a potential hepatitis C treatment. The phase-three trial will ...

Hepatitis-B carriers win right to attend school
Shanghai Daily, China - 8 hours ago
By Chen Qian | 2008-11-21 | ONLINE EDITION SEVENTY-FOUR hepatitis B-positive students in Yunnan Province have won court approval to study in a vocational ...

199 more hepatitis patients registered in Thatta
Regional Times, Pakistan - 10 hours ago
By Khuda Bux Brohi THATTA: In a free medical camp held in Sakro 199 more patients of Hepatitis have been registered and now the total number of Hepatitis ...

Hepatitis Outbreak Concerns Kennebunkport Parents
WMTW, ME - 14 hours ago
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine -- A recent outbreak of hepatitis A at Kennebunkport’s Consolidated Elementary School has district leaders rethinking their ...
Chicken pox outbreak keeps 300 Monroe students at home HeraldNet
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PhilBoxing.com
DOMINGO HAS HEPATITIS "B", FIGHT CALLED OFF
PhilBoxing.com, Philippines - 15 hours ago
1 ranked super bantamweight Rey “Boom Boom” Bautista, was found to have Hepatitis B dashing all hopes for a big win and a possible world title fight down ...
Domingo-Rocha shelved as Pinoy tests positive for Hepa-B ABS CBN News
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Ligand Collaborator GlaxoSmithKline Receives FDA Approval for ...
MarketWatch - 5 minutes ago
In addition to ITP, GSK reported positive Phase II data in patients with thrombocytopenia associated with hepatitis C and initiated two Phase III trials in ...

Proteomic Tools Enable Duke Researchers to Predict Responders to ...
Proteo Monitor, NY - 21 hours ago
Hepatitis C is the most common blood-borne viral infection in the US with up to an estimated 4 million people infected. Worldwide, 170 million people are ...

WRHA says 17 people exposed to HIV, hepatitis risk
Winnipeg Sun, Canada - 22 hours ago
The exposure risk of infections possibly including hepatitis B and C occurred between May 2007 and last month during the nurse's work with a finger-stick ...

Blood-drawing devices reused in Winnipeg: Health officials
Canada.com, Canada - 23 hours ago
Between 2001 and 2002, 33 Winnipeg children with diabetes were tested for Hepatitis C and HIV after a lancet was reused at a Health Sciences Centre clinic. ...
Reuse of blood-sampling device may have exposed 17 people in ... The Canadian Press
Winnipeg Health Authority says 17 people may have been exposed to ... Whistler Question
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Fatal fulminant herpes simplex hepatitis secondary to tongue ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release), NY - 1 hour ago
The incidence of fulminant herpes simplex virus hepatitis is extremely low, and the diagnosis is often missed due to the lack of specific signs or symptoms. ...

Hepatitis, heartbreak and hope
PennLive.com, PA - 7 hours ago
Her husband had advanced hepatitis, and there was nothing our doctors could do for him. He cried. She cried. I cried, hugging her as her thin body shook ...

Woman Sues After Getting Kidney Transplant With HIV and Hepatitis C
ShortNews.com, Germany - 20 Nov 2008
A 33-year-old woman is suing a Chicago hospital after she contracted Hepatitis C and HIV from a transplant kidney. The organ has been removed and the woman ...

NHS Tayside’s £2.7m to fight Hepatitis C
Evening Telegraph, UK - 20 Nov 2008
NHS Tayside will spend £2.7 million over the next three years tracking down and treating people with Hepatitis C (writes Marjory Inglis, medical reporter). ...

Cigarette Smoking, Hepatitis C Virus Synergistic in Raising Liver ...
Cancerpage.com, GA - 19 hours ago
NEW YORK NOV 19, 2008 (Reuters Health) - There appears to be a synergistic link between smoking and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, leading to a more ...

Daily News: Pancreatic Cancer Linked to Hepatitis B
Nurse.com, VA - 18 hours ago
Exposure to the hepatitis B virus may increase the risk of pancreatic cancer, researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston ...

Hepatitis A outbreak spreads at Consolidated School
Portsmouth Herald News, NH - 23 hours ago
By Laura Dolce KENNEBUNKPORT — Following news that a fifth child has been diagnosed with hepatitis A, parents questioned the MSAD 71 School Board on Monday ...

EU Drug Regulator: Schering-Plough Pulls Viraferon Filing
CNNMoney.com - 17 hours ago
... which is meant to treat chronic hepatitis B and C. On 9 March 2000 , the European Commission granted a marketing authorisation valid throughout the ...

COMUNICADO: Tibotec Presents Interim Findings for TMC435, an ...
Europa Press (Comunicado de prensa), Spain - 5 hours ago
(ii) Relapse to prior therapy is the most important factor for the retreatment response in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection. ...

UK charity promotes safe injections
Times of India, India - 4 hours ago
Injections are unsafe if they are reused, putting patients at the risk of infections such as Hepatitis B, or aren't administered properly, leaving patients ...
Safe Point Trust launches safe injection campaign Televisionpoint.com
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Reuters Canada
Gilead sees future in HIV, hepatitis C
Reuters - 19 Nov 2008
Going forward, Gilead sees its future in hepatitis C drugs, and most of its research budget is directed at treating the liver disease, Martin said. ...
UPDATE 1-Glaxo buys AstraZeneca OTC painkiller unit Reuters
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