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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...

Interventions boost HCV testing in baby boomers

Baby boomers are five times more likely to have a prevalence of #HCV infection c...

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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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...

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...

Investigational HCV regimen highly effective in Japanese genotype-1 patients

The newly submitted NDA from Abbvie has released another study result, this time...

Sovaldi-based regimens lead to high SVR rates in Egypt

Egypt, a country with high HCV rates, has recently achieved high SVR rates for "...

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 ...

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...

HCV patients with renal dysfunction safely achieve SVR with daclatasvir/asunaprevir

A successful regimen for HCV patients with all different levels of renal dysfunc...

Supervised injection for PWID potentially cost-effective

The opioid epidemic has been an ongoing issue in the U.S. for the past few years...

Black, Hispanic HCV patients more likely to fail DAA therapy

Whites tend to have higher rates of success in HCV treatment compared to minorit...

HCV eradication reduces complications in patients with cirrhosis

More news for HCV patients with cirrhosis! A recent study by CirVir cohort has s...

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...

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...

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...

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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