Viral Hepatitis News

Given my family history of MDs — my father, siblings and spouses of my siblings are all physicians — I actively tried to steer clear of medicine, but in the end, I just couldn’t help myself.

Artificial intelligence has emerged as a potentially important tool for patient care, including in infectious diseases.

When I was in high school, I was given the opportunity to take a part-time job that was a little out of the ordinary for my age: I worked for a clinical microbiologist selling sterile sheep blood to microbiology laboratories to make bacterial culture agar.

A Department of Veterans Affairs hepatitis C elimination program was overall successful in getting veterans with hepatitis C to initiate treatment and achieve sustained virologic response, researchers found.

I wasn’t so much hooked as I was hoodwinked!

A 1-year fellowship for senior trainees and early career infectious diseases physicians can help establish relationships with public health agencies and is an effective career development pathway, according to a study.

Hepatitis C primary infection and reinfection incidences declined after the introduction of access to direct-acting antiviral hepatitis C treatments, researchers found.

Study results suggest that WHO’s triple testing campaign for HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C should be expanded and not just target the three groups WHO listed to be most at risk, researchers said.

Scaling up hepatitis C testing and treatment in prisons effectively reduced HCV incidence and was a cost-effective option compared with existing services, data from a study in Australian prisons showed.

As viral hepatitis continues to be a major health concern in the infectious disease field, recent research has highlighted the importance of testing and treatment.