Hepatitis C News

A novel point-of-care test for hepatitis C meets the recent Foundation for Innovation in New Diagnostics and World Health Organization’s Target Product Profile for HCV decentralized testing in low-income and middle-income countries, according to a recently published study.

A Colorado hospital has warned patients they may have been exposed to serious infections through improperly sterilized surgical instruments, according to state health officials.

While hepatitis C treatment rates have improved since the introduction of direct-acting antivirals, researchers found that overall treatment rates in a large, ethnically diverse cohort were less than 20% and lowest among Hispanic patients and those with Medicaid or indigent care, according to a recently published study.

Undiagnosed hepatitis C was more common than undiagnosed HIV in a survey of patients admitted to a New York emergency department, according to a recently published study.

Theodore C. (Ted) Eickhoff, MD, professor emeritus in the division of infectious diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and longtime Chief Medical Editor of Infectious Disease News, died March 24 at age 86.

According to researchers, more than 6% of baby boomers tested positive for hepatitis C virus antibodies during a recent 7-month period at a small-city New Jersey ED — twice as high as the CDC estimate for the high-risk group.

Sofosbuvir plus ribavirin with or without pegylated interferon was safe and effective in Chinese patients with hepatitis C genotypes 1, 2, 3 and 6, regardless of treatment experience, according to recently published data.

While hepatitis C screening improved recently, the increased rates are minimal and less than optimal among black individuals, Hispanics and women, according to a recently published study.

The overall death rate from many infectious diseases decreased by nearly 20% in the United States over 35 years, according to researchers.

Gov . Andrew M. Cuomo announced the first U.S. state-level hepatitis C elimination strategy to end HCV in New York, according to a press release.