Hepatitis C News

Modelling results from a recent study showed that transplantation of hepatitis C-positive livers into uninfected patients with preemptive direct-acting antiviral therapy was a cost-effective strategy and could improve health outcomes, especially in those with higher MELD scores.

Results of a modeling study showed that in dense urban settings with high prevalence of hepatitis C among people who inject drugs, HCV treatment-as-prevention strategies will have little impact over 10 years unless coverage is greatly expanded.

Results of a recent mortality profile of New York City residents with hepatitis C and hepatitis B showed that patients with HCV were significantly more likely to have HIV coinfection, hepatocellular carcinoma, and lower survival rates compared with HBV.

Tattoos are becoming increasingly popular among teenagers, with nearly one-quarter of teens aged 16 to 18 years asking for parental approval; however, many parents are concerned about the risk for infection and the social stigma associated with body modification, according to a C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll.

Population-level hepatitis C reinfection rates after direct-acting antiviral therapy were elevated among people who inject drugs due to ongoing exposure risk, according to a recently published study.

Ted Eickhoff understood the intersection of public health and the infectious disease practitioner, effectively using his editorial pulpit at Infectious Disease News to promote dialogue and discourse on the rapidly changing circumstances that would dictate public health policy. He recognized the ever-evolving microbial world’s impact on not only the individual patient, but on the community at large, and remained at the forefront, ensuring that infectious disease practitioners received needed information in a timely manner so they could remain staunch public health partners. A profession is traditionally defined by its common body of knowledge. As with the 1910 Flexner Report that proved revolutionary for medical education in the United States, the 1915 Welch-Rose report presented to the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation outlined public health as a profession in which “Unity is to be found rather in the end to be accomplished. ... Public Health is not a single profession in the traditional sense and is best defined by its shared goals rather than its disparate means. Articulating who we are and what we do remains one of our greatest challenges.”

Liver disease researchers recently published internally validated models that estimated the risk for hepatocellular carcinoma following direct-acting antiviral therapy for hepatitis C based on the presence of cirrhosis and sustained virologic response outcome.

Outcome Health announced a partnership with the American Liver Foundation to launch a nationwide campaign to promote the recently updated hepatitis C screening recommendations and raise awareness of liver disease, according to a press release.

Baseline resistance associated substitutions did not impact sustained virologic response among direct-acting antiviral-experienced patients who underwent hepatitis C therapy with Vosevi for 12 weeks, according to a recently published study.

The World Health Organization has added ravidasvir as a future pangenotypic direct-acting antiviral to the list of recommended therapies in their Guidelines for the Care and Treatment of Persons Diagnosed with Chronic Hepatitis C, according to a press release.