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• Alarming trend -- antiviral therapy to treat hepatitis C is declining in the US

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 643
  Researchers from the University of Michigan determined that only 663,000 of the approximately 3.9 million Americans with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection received antiviral therapy between 2002 and 2007. Treatment rates appear to be declining, in part because only half of the patients know they are infected.
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• Pharmasset Announces The Continued Enrollment Of The Phase 2b Clinical Trial Of RG7128 For The Treatment Of Hepatitis C

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  Pharmasset, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRUS) announced that the enrollment of Cohort 2, led by its partner Roche (SWX: ROG.VX; RO.S, OTCQX: RHHBY), will continue for the remaining 300 genotype 1 and 4 patients in the ongoing phase 2b trial of RG7128, a first-in-class nucleoside analog polymerase inhibitor for the treatment of ...
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• Flint program looks at instituting needle exchange in battle against HIV

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 649
  An AIDS service organization in Flint, Wellness AIDS Services, is asking Flint leaders to back a proposal which would allow them to create a needle exchange. The exchange, they argue, will reduce the incidents of intravenous drug user infections with HIV, as well as Hepatitis B and C. But local leaders are leery of ...
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• Zero-risk blood transfusion soon? (India News report/NDTV).

  
  noblood — Authority: 134
  Zero-risk blood transfusion soon? (India News report/NDTV). [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4cZ6Q7ahnY[/media] I wonder, in terms of blood transfusion technology/research, how many years are India behind the likes of US/UK? L.
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• Review Time!!! :o)

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 145
        A few weeks ago Amy from Fair Haven Health sent my husband and I some things to try. I got the FertileCM and Hubby got the FertilAid for Men. This going to be a review on the FertileCM. Hubby’s review on the FertilAid for Men because he only started taking it last week. He was out of town when we received ...
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• brett stone, mmjnews: links to ammending motions to LA city medical cannabis ordinance (2068)

  
  aids-write.org — Authority: 130
  Amending motions to LA medical marijuana ordinance posted online by brett stone mmjnews november 19, 2009 All of the amending motions to the 5th draft ordinance regulating medical marijuana collectives in Los Angeles that were presented in city council on Wednesday are posted online at - ...
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• AIIMS advocates special test to make blood transfusion safer

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  New Delhi, Nov 21 (IANS) About 20,000 patients in India could be at risk of getting infected blood — unknown to them and even the donors. Doctors at the premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here Saturday advocated a special test to detect Hepatitis B and C and HIV so that blood transfusion [...]
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• Hepatitis A is the most common type of hepatitis

  
  Hepatitis A Blog — Authority: 92
  Washing your hands is one of the best ways to protect against this serious liver disease Are you traveling to another country, such as Mexico, Africa, Central or South America, Asia (except Japan) or Eastern Europe? Do you have children in a daycare center, work directly with children or help ill adults? If you ...
  4 days ago

• Alicante Hepatitis Outbreak

  
  AMLA Spain News & Property in Spain on The Spanish Property MLS — Authority: 149
  It appears that there was an outbreak of Hepatitis C at Alicante General Hospital.A report from the Preventitive Medicine Epidemiology Unit has shown that it affected 7 people.The outbreak was in Haematology in 2007.One of those affected died a year after contracting the disease.The family of this person ...
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• Toward Explaining Why Hepatitis B Hits Men Harder Than Women

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  Scientists in China are reporting discovery of unusual liver proteins, found only in males, that may help explain the long-standing mystery of why the hepatitis B virus (HBV) sexually discriminates -- hitting men harder than women. Their study has been published online in ACS Journal of Proteome Research, a monthly ...
  4 days ago

• Dynavax Completes Enrollment Of First Cohort Of Patients In Phase 1b Clinical Trial For Hepatitis B Therapy

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  Dynavax Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: DVAX) announced today that enrollment has been completed for the first of three cohorts of patients receiving DV-601 hepatitis B therapy in a Phase 1b clinical trial. The safety profile of patients in the first cohort met pre-specified criteria for dose escalation and the ...
  4 days ago

• Alnylam Presents New Pre-clinical Data On ALN-VSP, An RNAi Therapeutic For The Treatment Of Liver Cancer

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), a leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced new pre-clinical data from its ALN-VSP program presented at the AACR-NCI-EORTC Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics International conference being held November 15 - 19, 2009 in Boston, Mass.
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• Treating alcohol-use disorders and tuberculosis together

  
  Fight Hangovers — Authority: 157
  Link: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/ace-tad111609.php » Treatment for alcohol use disorders (AUDs) and tuberculosis (TB) is rarely integrated, even though the two diseases have a high co-occurrence. » American and Russian researchers have jointly designed and are monitoring an innovative ...
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• Why Hepatitis B Hits Men Harder Than Women

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  Scientists in China are reporting discovery of unusual liver proteins, found only in males, that may help explain the long-standing mystery of why the hepatitis B virus (HBV) sexually discriminates -- hitting men harder than women. Their study has been published online in ACS Journal of Proteome Research, a monthly ...
  4 days ago

• When was the last time you got checked for STds?

  
  Dapx - Published news — Authority: 179
  STDTESTTODAY.com provides std tests to consumers in a professional, convenient and affordable manner.No doctors visit required. We provide: HIV, chlamydia, herpes, gonorrhea, hepatitis and syphilis testing.
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• The Antifibrotic Effects Of Green Tea

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  Several studies have shown that lipid peroxidation stimulates collagen production in fibroblasts and hepatic stellate cells (HSC), and plays an important role in the development of liver fibrosis. Hepatoprotective effects of green tea against carbon tetrachloride, cholestasis and alcohol induced liver fibrosis were ...
  5 days ago

• Is Hepatic Differentiation Of Embryonic Stem Cells Induced By Valproic Acid And Cytokines?

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  Embryonic stem (ES) cells, known for their capacity to proliferate indefinitely and differentiate into almost all types of cells including hepatocytes, have raised the hope of cellular replacement therapy for liver failure.
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• Hepatitis B targets men more viciously than women

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Washington, Nov 19 (IANS) The Hepatitis B virus (HBV) targets men more readily than women, triggering serious complications like cirrhosis and liver cancer, says a new study.Men infected with HBV are also six times more likely than women to develop a chronic form of the disease. About 400 million people worldwide have ...
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• ONTARIO NURSES ASSOCIATION / Blood Donor Screening

  
  noblood — Authority: 134
  Ontario Joins Other Nurses Unions in Calling for a Halt to Plans to Eliminate RNs from Blood Donor Screening TORONTO, Nov. 18 /CNW/ - Noting that there is no evidence to support claims that using unskilled, unregulated workers to screen blood donors will not jeopardize the safety of Canadas blood supply, the Ontario ...
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• The Triggering Effect Part 5: Loss

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Coupled with the trigger of feelings is the fact that those feelings are often associated with loss. By the time you get to recovery, you have had multiple losses in your life, often related to childhood, many times due to being raised with abuse, addiction, mental illness, etc. While you may have experienced trauma ...
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