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Researchers develop global hepatitis C recommendations for injection-drug users

According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, around 12,000 people die every year from HCV-related liver disease. A researcher from Miriam Hospital has teamed up with an international panel of...

2 August, 2013

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Hepatitis-B 100 times deadlier than HIV says doc

Not many may know that the Hepatitis-B is 100 times deadlier than HIV and claims around one lakh lives in India every yea, said Dr. Manoj Kumar Sahu, Associate Professor at the Centre of Excellence for Gastrointestinal...

2 August, 2013

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3% of Ukrainians infected with hepatitis C virus

3% of Ukraine’s population is infected with hepatitis C virus, chief infectious diseases specialist of the Healthcare Ministry of Ukraine, head of the Bohomolets National Medical University Infectious Diseases...

29 October, 2012

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Earlier treatment for young patients with chronic Hepatitis B may be more effective in clearing virus

Scientists from A*STAR’s Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS), together with clinical collaborators from London, discovered for the first time that children and young patients with chronic Hepatitis B...

11 September, 2012

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Myanmar: New pentavalent vaccination program to target 1.4 million children

About 1.4 million children under 12 months of age will be vaccinated against five deadly diseases under a four-year program beginning in October, an official from the Ministry of Health said last week. The pentavalent...

16 August, 2012

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Hepatitis A vaccination in children under 2 remains effective for 10 years

Vaccination against the hepatitis A virus (HAV) in children two years of age and younger remains effective for at least 10 years, according to new research available in the August issue of Hepatology, a journal of the...

14 August, 2012

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Vaccine may help in type 1 diabetes

An immunotherapy that stimulates tumor necrosis factor (TNF) may hold promise as a therapy for type 1 diabetes, researchers found. In a small, proof-of-concept study, treatment with a Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG)...

13 August, 2012

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10 to 12 million Pakistanis infected with hepatitis B and C

Early detection and effective treatment are the keys to combat viral hepatitis. A research conducted at Aga Khan University (AKU) suggests that out of nearly 70 percent of patients suffering from Hepatitis C, younger...

30 July, 2012

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Viral hepatitis claims 1 million lives each year

Viral hepatitis is responsible for one million deaths each year, according to the World Health Organization. In the next ten years, it can claim the lives of over five million people in Southeast Asia. “The vast...

26 July, 2012

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China Plans To Launch Hepatitis E Vaccine ‘This Year’

After more than a year of scrutiny and inspection by China’s State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), a hepatitis E vaccine developed by Chinese scientists should be available by the end of the year. Scientists...

26 June, 2012

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