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Diagnoses of infective endocarditis, a life-threatening bacterial infection of the heart valves, have become more common over the past ten years among people with hepatitis C and people with opioid use disorder ...

People with chronic liver disease admitted to hospital with COVID-19 are dying at a much higher rate than the rest of the population, figures collated by liver specialists in Europe, Asia and ...

Substantial weight gain is common after hepatitis C cure, an analysis of a large cohort shows, and around one in five people with normal body weight became overweight within two years, US ...

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 ...

Treatment for hepatitis C was highly effective in clearing the virus in young people co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C through vertical infection, despite advanced fibrosis in one-third, Spanish researchers report in the ...

Directly observed treatment for hepatitis C achieved a very high cure rate in people who inject drugs, an Austrian study carried out in pharmacies and drugs projects offering opioid substitution therapy has reported. The ...

Major gaps in harm reduction and treatment provision for people who inject drugs jeopardise the achievement of global targets for hepatitis C elimination by 2030, a review of hepatitis C treatment and ...

Half of people who inject drugs in the Middle East and north Africa have been infected with hepatitis C, and researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine Qatar estimate that around 221,000 people who ...