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• in Technorati Women
  HIV Positive Organ Donors? Some Say Yes!
  Researchers are calling for a change to the federal regulations that would allow for HIV positive organ donation.
  by pbinmyhair / on Apr 11, 2011
• in Lifestyle
  Putting a Face on AIH
  Finding inspiration and information online after being diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis disease — a rare form of hepatitis and liver disease
  by livingwithaih / on Jan 14, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “hepatitis”

 

• Blood: The Worldwide Market For Blood Products, Blood Testing, Blood Equipment, And Synthetic Blood

  
  College Debt Tips and Advice — Authority: 133
  Blood: The Worldwide Market for Blood Products, Blood Testing, Blood Equipment, and Synthetic Blood Products Pages : 200 Fueled by the aging population in the US, Europe and Japan, blood markets have shown continued growth and should continue to do so near-term. There are many aspects to the blood market: blood ...
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• Shedding Light On Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Gene Mutation Linked To Accumulation Of Fat, Other Lipids In Liver

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 692
  A team of scientists from the University of Utah and the University of California at San Francisco has discovered that the mutation of a gene encoding a ketone body transporter triggers accumulation of fat and other lipids in the livers of zebrafish. This discovery, published in the Feb. 1, 2012, issue of Genes & ...
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• Hepatitis (Liver Inflammation)- Causes, Symptoms And Treatment

  
  Health Resource 4u — Authority: 112
  Do you want to know more about the condition? This article is for you. We will try to provide you with everything that you would need to know about the disease and more. However, let us first discuss what the condition of liver inflammation really entails. Liver inflammation Defined Hepatitis is the more popular term ...
  3 days ago

• Pakistan asks WHO for help on dengue

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 533
  Islamabad, Jan 29 (IANS) The World Health Organisation (WHO) has assured Pakistan of its full support in eradicating diseases like polio, hepatitis and dengue.Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani met WHO Director-General Margaret Chan in Davos, Switzerland, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, and ...
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• Researchers Discover New Therapeutic Target To Combat Liver Cancer

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 692
  Researchers at CIC Biogune, the Cooperative Centre for Research into Biosciences and led by Dr. Maria Luz Martinez Chantar, have found a strong relationship between high levels of Hu antigen R (HuR) protein and the malignancy of Hepatocellular Carcinoma, through a novel molecular process in the investigation of this ...
  5 days ago

• Identification Of Entry Point For Hepatitis C Infection

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 692
  A molecule embedded in the membrane of human liver cells that aids in cholesterol absorption also allows the entry of hepatitis C virus, the first step in hepatitis C infection, according to research at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. The cholesterol receptor offers a promising new target ...
  1 week ago

• Hepatitis

  
  Life Choice — Authority: 92
  Hepatitis disease commonly known as jaundice. Actually, hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver organ (liver) caused by various factors. Causes , Factors causing hepatitis or jaundice, among others, is a viral infection, metabolic disorders, alcohol consumption, autoimmune disease, the result of complications from ...
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• Vertex Vows to Fight On With Alios Drugs in High-Stakes Hepatitis C Race

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 644
  Luke Timmerman Vertex Pharmaceuticals went from king of the hill in the treatment of hepatitis C to yesterday’s news in about six wild months. But while many on Wall Street say Vertex’s big drug will soon become obsolete, Vertex and its small partner in South San Francisco have quietly put themselves in ...
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• MGDN (Video Update), BMY, LLL, RFX - Market Watch From PennyOmega.com!

  
  CRWE NEWS Financial Stock Market Website — Authority: 134
    Medgenics, Inc. (NYSE Amex:MDGN), the developer of a novel technology for the sustained production and delivery of therapeutic proteins in patients using their own tissue, announced that the Company received notice of ‘Intention to Grant’ from the European Patent Office for the patent application entitled ...
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• MDGN, BBT, CNW, PPG - CRWESelect.com Stock News! Medgenics Inc., BB&T Corporation, Con-Way Inc., PPG Industries Inc. (Video Included Inside)

  
  CRWE NEWS Financial Stock Market Website — Authority: 134
  Medgenics, Inc. (AMEX: MDGN)MDGN announced that the Company received notice of ‘Intention to Grant’ from the European Patent Office for the patent application entitled “USE OF DERMAL MICRO ORGANS,” with allowed claims covering a core element of its Biopump™ protein therapy technology.“This patent is ...
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• Many High-Risk Americans Dont Get Hepatitis B Vaccine

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 692
  A recently published study investigating hepatitis B vaccination rates in the United States found that more than half of adults at risk for hepatitis B virus remain unvaccinated. With many of these individuals making contact with the healthcare system, including HIV testing, this statistic reflects many missed ...
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• Clarus Ventures Looks to Steer Ship Through Less Predictable Biotech Seas

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 644
  Luke Timmerman It’s never been easy to make a buck in biotech venture capital, but there used to be more predictability and logic to it, according to Clarus Ventures’ Nick Galakatos . You’d invest a few million, or tens of millions, and push a new drug or device toward some scientific validation in a few ...
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• Common Type Of Hepatitis C Suppressed By Combination Of Oral Drugs

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 692
  A new combination of investigational drugs successfully suppressed hepatitis C genotype 1 infection in a high percent of patients who had not responded to previous treatment in a study led by a University of Michigan hepatologist. The study, which was published Jan. 19 in the New England Journal of Medicine, focused ...
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• Soon, New Therapies to Treat Hepatitis C

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 129
  More than 170 million people worldwide suffer from hepatitis C, the disease caused by chronic HCV infection. The disease affects the liver and is one of the leading causes of liver cancer and liver transplant around the world. HCV is spread by blood-to-blood contact and there is no vaccine to prevent it. Current ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hope for Hepatitis C

  
  Now@NEJM: A Communications Blog — Authority: 104
  Imagine, for a moment, that you recently received a brand new Time-O-Matic Time Machine as a gift. How far back would you have to set the dial to see that meaningful progress has been made in the treatment of hepatitis C? First, let’s say you set the dial to January 2011 and –- Puff-kachunk! — you’re there. ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Combo KOs HCV Without Interferon, Ribavirin (CME/CE)

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 136
  (MedPage Today) -- A combination of direct-acting antiviral agents aimed at hepatitis C -- and given without standard therapy -- can lead to sustained virologic response in patients with a difficult-to-treat strain of the virus.
  2 weeks ago

• Blood Transfusion Errors: Preventing Future Occurrences

  
  noblood — Authority: 109
  Issue 10 - August 30, 1999 Blood Transfusion Errors: Preventing Future Occurrences August 30, 1999 Since the Joint Commission began tracking sentinel events more than three years ago, the Accreditation Committee of the Joint Commissions Board of Commissioners has reviewed 12 cases related to transfusion errors. For ...
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• News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: Jan. 17, 2012

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 692
  VIROLOGY: How to prevent hepatitis B virus reproducing Infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major health problem worldwide, despite the fact that a highly effective preventative vaccine exists. A modified form of the immune molecule IFN-alpha is commonly used to treat individuals infected with HBV. The ...
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• Combination of oral drugs suppresses common type of hepatitis C

  
  BreakThrough Digest Medical News — Authority: 118
  Ann Arbor, Mich. – A new combination of investigational drugs successfully suppressed hepatitis C genotype 1 infection in a high percent of patients who had not responded to previous treatment in a study led by a University of Michigan hepatologist. The study, which will be published Jan. 19 in the New England ...
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• Some Small Transfusions Pose Unnecessary Risks

  
  noblood — Authority: 109
  January 17, 2012 — Medscape.com Surgeons should be extremely cautious with even minimal intraoperative transfusions because they can sicken and kill patients , researchers reported in an article published in the January issue of the Archives of Surgery. "Intraoperative transfusion of 1 unit of ...
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