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HCV eradication in HIV coinfected patients linked to reduced diabetes, chronic renal failure

1,625 #patients were treated with interferon and ribavirin between 2000 and 2008...
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Interventions boost HCV testing in baby boomers

Baby boomers are five times more likely to have a prevalence of #HCV infection c...
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HCV decreasing while NASH, ALD increasing among LT patients

#Patients waiting on the #liver transplant list for #HCV have dramatically decre...
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Report raises questions about long-term effects of DAAs for HCV

DAAs have been a successful form of treatment for #HCV, but researchers now ques...
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Shop at smile.amazon.com/ch/22-3337679 to support and donate for Hepatitis Found...
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Short-term cost of interferon-free therapies for all HCV patients high yet cost-effective

Few millions of HCV patients participated in a nation-wide study debating on the...
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Zepatier highly effective for inducing SVR in HCV patients with prior treatment failure

There is a great alternative #treatment for HCV genotypes 1, 4, or 6 patients wh...
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Investigational HCV regimen highly effective in Japanese genotype-1 patients

The newly submitted NDA from Abbvie has released another study result, this time...
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Sovaldi-based regimens lead to high SVR rates in Egypt

Egypt, a country with high HCV rates, has recently achieved high SVR rates for "...
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New HCV study underscores risk for human suffering, need for clinician vigilance

Researchers at CDC and Quest Diagnostics have found that "...nearly one in four ...
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Lost his fight

Hi all you liver sufferers, I haven't been on here before but I know in a way wh...
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AbbVie submits NDA for investigational regimen for all HCV genotypes

AbbVie has submitted a New Drug Application to the FDA for its investigational p...
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HCV patients with renal dysfunction safely achieve SVR with daclatasvir/asunaprevir

A successful regimen for HCV patients with all different levels of renal dysfunc...
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Supervised injection for PWID potentially cost-effective

The opioid epidemic has been an ongoing issue in the U.S. for the past few years...
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Black, Hispanic HCV patients more likely to fail DAA therapy

Whites tend to have higher rates of success in HCV treatment compared to minorit...
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HCV eradication reduces complications in patients with cirrhosis

More news for HCV patients with cirrhosis! A recent study by CirVir cohort has s...
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Overweight children should be screened for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Diabetes, strokes, and heart attacks are usually what one may think of what dise...
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Most vets with hepatitis C could be cured in three years

Veterans are the most targeted group by HCV, but only a small amount of patients...
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Offering syringes along with prayers, churches help IV drug users

"...You can’t save somebody’s soul if they’re dead.” In July, North Carolina leg...
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Hep C: The Deadliest Killer in Colorado's Prisons Is a Curable Virus

HCV is known as the deadliest infectious disease, even more dangerous than HIV. ...
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