All the news Showing 10 of 25 articles.Get an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources 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 ... Hepatitis B treatment suboptimal in people with HIV in Africa Keith Alcorn / 04 February 2020 Testing for chronic hepatitis B infection was very low in people living with HIV in Cameroon, a country with a high burden of hepatitis B, and suppression of hepatitis B virus was ... Abbott Introduces the World's Most Sensitive Rapid Diagnostic Test, Determine™ HBsAg 2, to Accelerate Hepatitis B Care PR Newswire / 24 February 2019 New simplified scoring system identifies people with hepatitis B in need of treatment in Africa Keith Alcorn / 02 July 2018 Liver enzyme and hepatitis B 'e' antigen test results are sufficient to determine which people with hepatitis B need antiviral treatment for the infection in sub-Saharan Africa, a study carried ... Cost-effective universal screening for hepatitis C in France EurekAlert (press release) / 02 July 2018 Active invitation to test for viral hepatitis greatly improves uptake of testing among South Asians in England Keith Alcorn / 16 April 2018 Inviting migrants and their children by post to test for hepatitis B and C in primary care settings results in the identification of a high prevalence of previously undiagnosed infections, ... WHO guidelines on hepatitis B and C testing World Health Organization / 21 February 2017 Inexpensive interventions can boost engagement with key stages of viral hepatitis care continuum Michael Carter / 14 October 2016 Several cheap interventions can significantly boost engagement with the continuum of care for viral hepatitis, a systematic literature review and a series of meta-analyses published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases show. Programmes led by ... Hepatitis B testing should be done before hepatitis C treatment due to risk of HBV reactivation Liz Highleyman / 07 October 2016 People considering direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapy for hepatitis C should first be tested for hepatitis B virus (HBV) and monitored throughout therapy, as elimination of hepatitis C virus (HCV) can lead to HBV ... Many people in the US with chronic hepatitis B not being properly monitored Michael Carter / 26 August 2016 Many people with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) virus infection have infrequent medical monitoring, according to US research published in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Analysis of the records of over 2000 ... ← First123Next → 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 Health services, policy and advocacy Social issues Conference news Email bulletin archive