Hepatitis C News

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America updated its guidance for health care personnel with hepatitis B, hepatitis C or HIV in light of evidence of low transmission and advances in treatments.

The ACP has issued clinical advice for the treatment of hepatitis C virus infection in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The advice is based on WHO’s update to its evidence-based guidance in July 2018.

I just was looking for something to do during the summer hiatus after my first year in medical school. Back then, we had summers off, and students often sought medicine-related jobs to broaden their experience while earning a few dollars.

Screening people who inject drugs for hepatitis C virus may be a cost-effective way to combat HCV infection and could be preferable to universal testing when resources are limited, according to an analysis published in JAMA Network Open.

A 2-year study involving more than 22,000 patients hospitalized with injection drug use-related infections in Florida revealed differences in clinical characteristics depending on the types of drugs used.

At the virtual Innovations in Dialysis: Expediting Advances Symposium, the chair of the Nephrologists Transforming Dialysis Safety program discussed measures the group has taken to reduce infections for patients on dialysis.

By 2040, researchers predict 75% of cirrhosis cases in North America will be due to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease with a nearly 350% increase in women born after 1980, according to a presenter at the Digital International Liver Conference.

Since its founding in 2018, the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Inclusion, Diversity, Access and Equity Task Force (IDA&E) has worked to address racial and ethnic disparities in health care.

My path into infectious diseases began in 1983 during my intern year at Grady, when patients with a new infectious disease that we now know as HIV/AIDS began showing up.

Concurrent infection with hepatitis C, hepatitis B or HIV is associated with high mortality risk — up to nine times higher among triple-infected patients compared with noninfected patients, a study showed.