Liver Disease / Hepatitis News From Medical News Today
Terrence Higgins Trust Re-Launches Support Group For Gay Men With Hepatitis C And HIV, UK On Thursday 12 August, Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) will be running another six week course for gay men who are living with HIV and Hepatitis C. The group will meet each week from 6.30 - 9.30pm in central London. The course looks at living with both HIV and Hepatitis C, but the primary focus will be on Hepatitis...
ANA598 Demonstrates SVR12 In 100% Of First Group Of HCV Patients Randomized To Stop All Treatment At Week 24 Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANDS) announced that six of six patients (100%) in the ANA598 200 mg twice daily (bid) arm who were randomized to stop all treatment at Week 24 in an ongoing Phase II trial maintained undetectable levels of virus 12 weeks after stopping treatment, referred to as Sustained Virological Response 12, or SVR12...
Pharmasset Initiates Phase 1b Multiple Ascending Dose Clinical Trial Of PSI-938 In Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C Pharmasset, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRUS) announced that safety and pharmacokinetic data from the PSI-352938 ("PSI-938") single ascending dose study support progression to a multiple ascending dose trial with PSI-938, which has initiated dosing. PSI-938 is a guanine nucleotide analog polymerase inhibitor for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection...
New Transplantation Criteria For Liver Cancer Patients Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco propose that treatments used on liver cancers beyond the established Milan criteria for liver transplantation may be appropriate for all patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who are listed for transplantation...
Can-Fite Drug Candidate CF102 Significantly Decreased Viral Load Of HCV In 3 Patients With Liver Cancer Can-Fite BioPharma Ltd (TASE:CFBI), a biotechnology company traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange reported that a significant decrease in HCV viral load was detected in 3 patients with liver cancer who are treated daily orally with CF102. The company is studying CF102 as a treatment for liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma, or HCC)...
Hepatitis Virus Transmission Through Misuse Of Anesthesia Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) can be transmitted during intravenous (IV) administration of anesthesia, according to a new study in Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute. In this study, doctors found that anesthesia contamination - not endoscopy contamination - was the cause of infection...
A Food-Related Method For The Diagnosis Of Hepatic Steatosis A multidisciplinary research team from the Instituto Biodonostia made up by digestologists, epidemiologists and researchers of the Experimental Unit evaluated the use of a method so far employed in the food industry to improve the diagnosis of hepatic steatosis. Fatty liver is one of the most frequent liver diseases and it is promoted by obesity and diabetes...
HCV Therapy Compromised When Depression Overlooked In Patients With Hepatitis C Researchers from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland (the NORDynamIC project group) have observed that depressive symptoms in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are commonly overlooked in routine clinical interviews, and that treatment-induced depression compromises the outcome of HCV therapy. A second U.S...
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