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Coronavirus

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease does not raise the risk of COVID-19, gene study shows

Keith Alcorn / 26 May 2020

People with a genetic profile that strongly predicts non-alcoholic or metabolic-associated fatty liver disease were not at higher risk of being hospitalised with COVID-19 in the United Kingdom, an analysis of the ...
Treatment in acute infection

Short-course treatment for recent hepatitis C: some courses may be too short

Keith Alcorn / 07 May 2020

An eight-week course of grazoprevir/elbasvir (Zepatier) achieved a high cure rate in people recently infected with hepatitis C, but another study found that a six-week course of sofosbuvir/velpatasvir (Epclusa) resulted in an inferior ...
NAFLD

Fatty liver raises the risk of death in people with HIV and hepatitis C

Keith Alcorn / 15 September 2019

People with HIV and hepatitis C co-infection who had fatty liver disease were twice as likely to die during a five-year follow-up period as their counterparts without fatty liver disease, ...
Harm reduction interventions and policy

“Marseilles Bears a Heavy Stigma of Drug Trafficking and Use” – An Interview with Beatrice Stambul

Drug Reporter / 15 July 2019
Sexual transmission

Epidemic of sexually transmitted hepatitis C in gay men now involves both HIV-positive and HIV-negative men

Michael Carter / 29 March 2019

Incidence of acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) among men who have sex with men (MSM) who use pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in Lyon increased tenfold between 2016 and 2017, according to ...