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World’s First Pediatric Laparoscopic Liver Surger

...ults in scarring of the liver tissue and long-term hepatitis B and C infections, can increase the risk for live...during 2006. Because of a higher incidence rate of hepatitis B and C, liver cancer is more common in developing countries in Africa and East Asia than in the Uni...

The Dengue Virus Unplugged

...at includes West Nile, St. Louis encephalitis, and hepatitis C. These viruses, known as flaviviruses, cause millions of cases of human illness each year, but no vaccines or antiviral drugs exist to control most of the infections. Dengue fever is endemic in many tropical and subtropical regions, causing a se...

Hepatitis A Threat to Coffee Drinkers

...are being asked to monitor themselves for signs of hepatitis A.// According to health officials in Peel Regio...cation at 2 Intermodal Dr. has tested positive for hepatitis A. Peel's associate medical officer of the health, Dr. Eileen De Villa, has assured that the risk ...

Demand for More Widespread Use of HPV Vaccine

...do not cause children to seek out rusty nails, and hepatitis B vaccination has not altered sexual practices or increased injection-drug abuse in any population.’ Research authors said, ‘Preventive measures do not always lead to high-risk behavior. It is naive to think that abstinence and monogamy will eradic...

Hemophiliacs Demand Justice

... companies which were accused of providing HIV and hepatitis C contaminated blood and plasma// products to more than 300 hemophiliacs. Members of the hemophiliac society suffer from sporadic bleeding episodes that destroy joints and damage organs, requiring regular transfusions of blood-clotting products to ...

Gates Foundation Adopts Fight against Encephalitis

...dhra Pradesh to mainly introduce a vaccine against hepatitis B. At the time local government and health officials agreed to cooperate in the devotion of resources and funding to the project provided the Seattle team would also target Japanese encephalitis. Jacobson said, "I didn't know anything about it....

Chinese Hepatitis- B campaign: A Success Story

...untry's children in a five-year programme to fight hepatitis B.// More than 11 million children in 1,301 coun...ina are now protected through immunization against hepatitis B, said Jiang Zuojun, the Vice-Minister for Health. The health officials will have to quicken thei...

Water–borne Diseases Takes Tw

... are cholera, amebiosis, gastroenteritis, typhoid, hepatitis and leptospirosis. Dr Vijay Panjabi, vice-president of General Practitioners' Association, said, "This is a regular feature around this time of the year. We start getting cases of diarrhoea, high fever, typhoid, and jaundice throughout the monso...

Automated Hepatitis B Test Approved By FDA

...that can screen as well as confirm the presence of hepatitis B. Medical professions can now use the test// to check the blood that is donated for the hepatitis B virus. In addition the test can also be used to check the organs and tissues from cadavers. Curre...

The Fight Against Hepatitis

The control of hepatitis outbreak has become a burning issue in Asian count...pecially with around 1.5 million clinical cases of hepatitis occurring each year.// Looking at the main causes of this condition, we found that one of the main ...

Too Much Of Animal Protein May Lead To Cancer

...rowth is 10 %. Dr. Campbell's team also found that hepatitis B virus, which is known to be a carcinogen that causes liver cancer, does not cause as much damage in rats which were given a diet with 5 % protein when compared to rats fed with a diet containing 20 % protein. The Chinese on average consumed less...

India Approves Baraclude? (entecavir) For Treatment Of Chronic HEPATITIS B

...ARACLUDE? (entecavir) for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus infection //following its approval by the ...tecavir) is indicated for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus infection in adults with evidence of active viral replication and either evidence of persist...

Cheaper Vaccines From Tomatoes To Fight HIV, Hepatitis B

... of the world's most lethal viruses namely HIV and hepatitis B//. Researchers have declared that it would be possible to create cheap vaccines that could be grown and processed in poorer countries where there is a very large need but no funds available to produce the existing vaccines. It was reported th...

Hepatitis C Infected People Angry over Insurance Issue

...with haemophilia//, who were infected with HIV and hepatitis C after receiving contaminated blood products, to ... According to them a new scientific definition for hepatitis C that has been contained in the bill will lead to the exclusion of a number of infected people. In ...

Cipla's HIV Drug Gets FDA Approval

...ors. It stops the replication of the HIV virus and hepatitis B virus as well....

Repeated Liver Cell Proliferation, a Cause for Liver Cancer

...s major risk factors are persistent infection with hepatitis B and C viruses, and exposure to toxic chemicals, including alcohol ?V all of which cause chronic liver injury and inflammation. Although not common in the United States., the incidence of HCC is on an upward trajectory, with little hope for treatmen...

Impoverished Parents sell their Daughter to Treat their Ailing Kids

... money to treat their five children suffering from hepatitis C. They struck a deal with a family they claimed...er, fell apart after Robina too was diagnosed with hepatitis C. "I have 10 children and six of them including three girls, between 9 and 16 years of age, are now...

Japanese Court Rules In Patients Favour Over Hepatitis C Scandal

...es and the state were responsible for transmitting hepatitis C through a contaminated medical product// , and h...e court has ruled in a series of lawsuits over the hepatitis C scandal....

Medical Treatment from Stolen Body Parts – TGA Warn

...nded them to be tested for make sure for syphilis, hepatitis C, HIV infections....

Obesity Makes Treatment of HCV Difficult

... found that obese patients treated for the chronic hepatitis C virus infection are also more likely to see better results when underlying abnormalities caused by excessive fat tissue are corrected first. The results of the study published in the medical journal Hepatology has suggested that excess weight in ...

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