All the news Showing 10 of 61 articles from: Disease course and symptomsGet an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources Smoking reduces survival after liver cancer diagnosis for people with viral hepatitis Keith Alcorn / 18 January 2018 People with viral hepatitis who smoked were three times more likely to die after being diagnosed with liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma, HCC), according to a study of Swiss patients published ... Hepatitis C treatment highly effective in harder-to-treat people with HIV co-infection, Spanish real-life study shows Michael Carter / 16 January 2018 Hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment using direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) is highly effective and safe in harder-to-treat people with HIV co-infection, Spanish researchers report in AIDS. A sustained virological response (SVR), ... Daily aspirin therapy linked to lower liver cancer risk Liz Highleyman / 26 October 2017 People with hepatitis B virus (HBV) who took an aspirin a day – often recommended to help prevent cardiovascular disease – had a lower risk of developing liver cancer, according to a ... US FDA approves nivolumab immunotherapy for liver cancer Liz Highleyman / 27 September 2017 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week granted accelerated approval for nivolumab (Opdivo), an immunotherapy drug that restores T-cell anti-tumour activity, for people with hepatocellular carcinoma. Nivolumab, an antibody ... Statins reduce risk of decompensation for people with HCV- and HBV-related cirrhosis Michael Carter / 18 April 2017 Treatment with statins reduces the risk of decompensated liver disease for people with cirrhosis caused by hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV), investigators from Taiwan report in the online edition ... Is better treatment reducing liver cancer among people with hepatitis B? Liz Highleyman / 23 February 2017 The incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) appears to be decreasing and mortality improving among people with chronic hepatitis B treated with suppressive antiviral therapy, according to studies presented at the recent 2016 AASLD ... Curing hepatitis C reduces liver-related complications and death Liz Highleyman / 23 January 2017 People with hepatitis C who achieve sustained virological response to treatment had lower liver-related morbidity and mortality rates compared to people who were not successfully treated, according to research presented at the 2016 ... 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 ... 'Step-change in strategy' needed to eliminate HBV as a global health threat Michael Carter / 11 October 2016 Hepatitis B virus (HBV) could be eliminated as a global health threat with a scale-up of vaccination coverage, enhanced efforts to prevent vertical (mother-to-child) transmission and expansion of testing and treatment, according to ... Improvements in HIV treatment and care have had no impact on rates of endstage liver disease among HIV-positive people with viral hepatitis Michael Carter / 01 September 2016 Incidence of endstage liver disease (ESLD) among HIV-positive people with viral hepatitis changed little between 1996 and 2010, despite major improvements in HIV treatment and care, investigators from Canada and the United States ... ← Prev1...23456...7Next → Other pages in this section Latest news All the news Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Transmission and prevention Diagnosis and monitoring Disease course and symptoms Treatment HIV and HBV HCV and HBV Hepatitis delta Living with HBV 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