All the news Showing 10 of 670 articles from: Transmission, epidemiology and preventionGet an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources Prioritise harm reduction services to prevent hepatitis C re-infection, Scottish study finds Keith Alcorn / 24 January 2022 Limiting re-infection with hepatitis C in people who use drugs is most likely to be achieved by intensifying provision of sterile injecting equipment for people using needle and syringe programmes and increasing ... One in five new cases of hepatitis C in people who inject drugs due to unstable housing, modelling shows Keith Alcorn / 11 January 2022 Unstable housing may be responsible for up to one in five new infections with HIV or hepatitis C among people who inject drugs in the United Kingdom and the United States, a ... Newsom signs bills to broaden STD testing, hepatitis screenings Bay Area Reporter / 25 October 2021 California Pioneers Mandatory Testing for Hepatitis B and C KQED / 25 October 2021 People with diabetes or high alcohol consumption at higher risk of late hepatitis C diagnosis Keith Alcorn / 24 September 2021 People with diabetes and those with hazardous alcohol intake were significantly more likely to remain undiagnosed with hepatitis C and present with advanced fibrosis, a large number of people diagnosed with hepatitis ... England: Fewer than 700 community pharmacies sign up to provide hepatitis C testing Pharmaceutical Journal / 20 September 2021 Testing COVID-19 patients for viral hepatitis does not detect numerous undiagnosed cases Keith Alcorn / 19 September 2021 Screening people admitted to hospital with COVID-19 for hepatitis C or hepatitis B does not lead to detection of a large number of undiagnosed infections and is likely to be of limited ... Short stay in prison increases the risk of hepatitis C for people who use drugs Keith Alcorn / 03 September 2021 People who use drugs were over 50% more likely to acquire hepatitis C between 2004 and 2019 if they spent even a brief period in prison, a prospective study carried out in ... Universal hepatitis B screenings can save lives and cut costs, study says Scope / 13 July 2021 Reflex testing successfully uncovers hidden hepatitis C cases in Scotland Keith Alcorn / 29 June 2021 Automatic viral hepatitis testing of blood samples from patients with abnormal liver function has the potential to identify “hard to reach” people with hepatitis B or C who have no known risk ... ← First12345...67Next → Other pages in this section Latest news All the news Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Hepatitis C Hepatitis D Hepatitis E Coronavirus NAFLD Treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma Transmission, epidemiology and prevention Transfusion and medical procedures Injecting drug use Mother to child Sexual transmission Non-medical blood transfer HBV vaccination Epidemiology Screening and testing policy Health services, policy and advocacy Social issues Conference news Noticeboard Email bulletins News feeds