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Blood DNA Predicts Liver Cancer Early

...l. Certain clinical risk factors such as age and hepatitis B and C virus infections are risk factors for the ...igh-risk populations, including those with chronic hepatitis B and C virus infections. HCC is one of the most common deadly diseases worldwide, which claims th...

India's Pharmaceutical Industry to Be Global Player: Study

...as an example the way the 1997 launch of an Indian hepatitis B vaccine cut prices to one-thirtieth. "The biotech industry is globalising rapidly," Singer said, adding that the world market for generics was expected to increase significantly in the next few years as several major drugs lost patent protection....

New Hepatitis C Drug Shows Promise

...leased// promising early results of a trial on new hepatitis C drug, telaprevir. The drug could significantly ... our perception of optimal duration of therapy for hepatitis C." Hepatitis C is a liver disease caused by the hepatitis C virus, which is found in the liver a...

Alarming Rise of Methamphetamine Use Among Australian Youth

... dental problems. Also, transmission of HIV and hepatitis B and C can be a consequence of methamphetamine abuse. Thus while by itself it is dangerous, it becomes even more so when mixed with other stimulants. And a lot of drug users opt for a cocktail, the report notes. As many as 87 per cent of the dru...

Experimental Flu Vaccine Appears Promising in Early Tests

...of highly effective vaccines for the prevention of hepatitis B virus and human papillomavirus. Among the available expression technologies, recombinant baculovirus is especially well suited for production of influenza vaccine because the rapidity with which genes can be cloned and inserted into this vector fac...

India’s Biotech Companies- Jumbos Waiting to Gro

...ccesses, the report names the 1997 launch of the hepatitis B vaccine Shanvac-B by Shantha Biotechnics which h...hantha's vaccine now makes up almost 40 percent of hepatitis B vaccines for the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), distributed throughout the developing world. The...

500,000 Chinese Die of Hepatitis B Annually

China has the world's largest population of hepatitis B patients, said an official of the Chinese Hepati...er damage and hepatocirrhosis triggered by chronic hepatitis B, said HPF head Wang Zhao. He said about 120 million Chinese test positive to hepatitis, which ha...

Working Up Potential Living Liver Donors

...s such as ABO incompatibility or because they were hepatitis carriers, though 42 dropped out voluntarily, and 24 because there was another better donor. From step two onward, there were very few dropouts. Only two potential donors were rejected for psychological reasons. An additional twenty had incompatible l...

Rare Case of Hepatitis B Virus Transmission Between Dental Patients Recorded

Researchers have documented a case of hepatitis B virus (HBV) transmission between two patients at a dentist's office in the United States//. While this kind of infection is exceedingly rare, universal vaccination against the virus would likely have prevented both cases, according to the authors. ...

Public Libraries Turning into Shelters for the Homeless in the US

... Public Library System, notes, ”We offer our staff hepatitis vaccinations and free tuberculosis checks. We place sanitizing gels and latex gloves at every public desk. Who would guess that working in a library could be a hazardous occupation?” There is hope, however. After decades of studies by various task ...

Inquiry into Past NHS Treatment Disaster

...h donated blood and blood products and exposed to hepatitis C, 1,243 were also exposed to HIV. Unfortunatel...eatment for both viruses, only 2,552 patients with hepatitis C and just 361 with HIV are alive today. Says Labor MP Lord Peter Archer, who is heading the inqu...

Patrons Of A Brisbane Restaurant Warned Of Hepatitis A

...be in the centre of a health controversy involving hepatitis A virus. Queensland Health department had requested people //who ate at Wagamama restaurant at Chermside in the first week of March to seek the help of a doctor if they develop fever, stomach ache or loss of appetite and jaundice. This direction fo...

Teens to Be Lined Up for Vaccination Shots

...e given vaccines that are available abroad against hepatitis B and multiple strains of meningitis. A booster against whooping cough that is given to teenagers in France could be used in Britain to prevent young people from going on to infect their children when they became parents. A vaccine against chicke...

Hepatitis Rates Plummet in the U.S

...nd Prevention, U.S. According to CDC officials, hepatitis statistics have decreased significantly in their c.... The officials attribute this mainly to routine hepatitis immunizations, in children. The CDC reports that more than 100,000 Americans were infected with h...

Vaccine Promising Against Hepatitis E

... promising early test of the first vaccine against hepatitis E, a form of the liver-attacking disease that sickens many Asians and can spread// to soldiers or other Western visitors to the region. The vaccine, made from moth cells infected with an engineered virus, was 96 percent effective for Nepalese Army ...

Widely Used Hepatitis B Drug Spurs HIV Drug Resistance

...e that an antiretroviral drug widely used to treat hepatitis B liver infections was safe to use// on its own in...h both viral illnesses but who need to treat their hepatitis B and are not yet on anti-HIV drugs. Authors of the study have informed the U.S. Food and Drug Ad...

Sportsmen – Beware of Hepatitis

...nfection. Scientists caution that vaccinations for hepatitis B should be made mandatory to professional// rugby...lers of ages between 18 and 30 and tested them for hepatitis B virus. Traces of the virus were detected in the blood of nine of them. Further tests revealed th...

Expand the Role of Paramedics to Ensure Future of EMS in Canada

...ude-caring for the homeless, administering flu and hepatitis B jabs, and injury-prevention programs. 'It's really time to look at how we can branch out and be a complete part of the health-care system and help out in areas such as preventative medicine. It’s those kinds of things that help save the overall h...

Russia Launches Five-Year Plan To Combat Diseases, Including TB, HIV/AIDS

... workers in Russia are living with TB, HIV/AIDS or hepatitis because of inadequate health checks. Russian and international medical experts have said that the government has not taken action to address the country's health crisis and that it has denied the extent of the issue. Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov...

RNAi Shows Promise in Gene Therapy

...py to effectively shut down the viruses that cause hepatitis and HIV in mice. With three human RNAi gene ther...orked on a gene therapeutic approach against viral hepatitis for about 10 years and this is the first thing we've done that really looks promising," said Kay, pr...

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