Hepatitis C News

I grew up in a household surrounded by medicine and the medical needs of my sister. It was an environment I had become accustomed to and later became the focal point of my studies.

WASHINGTON — Carlos del Rio, MD, an Infectious Disease News Editorial Board Member and the new president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, discussed his agenda with Healio.

The efficacy of direct-acting antivirals in people with HIV and hepatitis C virus originating from Sub-Saharan Africa and southeastern Asia but living in Europe is high, according to a recent study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

Despite indications for PrEP being prevalent among people with hepatitis C, most patients were unaware of PrEP, had never been offered PrEP and were not using PrEP, researchers found.

I was a college student at University of Texas in the mid-90s, when the book The Hot Zone by Richard Preston was released.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — Although nearly every health care facility has felt the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, smaller, nonacademic medical centers are facing these problems with fewer resources to fall back on.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — COVID-19 and monkeypox have caused severe stress on the health care system, which has weakened the overall response to other ongoing infectious disease battles like the one against antimicrobial resistance.

An outbreak study based in West Virginia showed that people who inject drugs and have had hepatitis C are at risk for additional complications of injection drug use, including HIV hepatitis A and hepatitis B infection.

The 5-year allograft survival of a kidney transplanted from a deceased donor infected with the hepatitis C virus is comparable to a kidney from a donor who is not infected, according to data published in JAMA Network.

Infectious disease pharmacists provide a broad spectrum of services for patients, but like other health care professionals, they have faced changes since the emergence of COVID-19, and their role has expanded.