All the news Showing 10 of 27 articles from: EpidemiologyGet an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources Elimination of hepatitis C in Europe requires greater focus on prisoners and people who inject drugs Keith Alcorn / 26 February 2018 Efforts to eliminate viral hepatitis in Europe will need to focus on people who inject drugs and prisoners if European Union nations are to achieve the World Health Organization target ... Women with fatty liver disease at higher risk for heart disease Liz Highleyman / 24 October 2017 Women with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) had a higher risk of cardiovascular events including chest pain and heart failure compared to women without the condition – and about the same risk as ... San Francisco task force releases first hepatitis C estimates Liz Highleyman / 04 July 2017 End Hep C SF, a consortium of public health workers, medical providers, advocates and people living with hepatitis C, has released the first-ever estimate of the number of people thought to be ... New hepatitis C infections tripled in US over the past five years Liz Highleyman / 22 May 2017 The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new data last week showing that the number of new hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections reported to the agency nearly tripled between 2010 ... New hepatitis C infections among HIV-positive gay men drop by half after direct-acting antiviral roll-out in Netherlands Liz Highleyman / 17 February 2017 A little more than a year after the Netherlands instituted a policy allowing unrestricted access to direct-acting antivirals for the treatment of hepatitis C, researchers have already seen a dramatic decline in acute ... INHSU 2016 opens with focus on hepatitis C prevention and treatment for people who inject drugs Liz Highleyman / 08 September 2016 The 5th International Symposium on Hepatitis Care in Substance Users (INHSU 2016) got underway yesterday with an overview of the epidemiology of hepatitis C virus (HCV) among people who inject drugs and ... Hepatitis C kills more people than any other infectious disease in US, CDC says Liz Highleyman / 06 May 2016 The number of deaths due to hepatitis C is at an all-time high in the US and exceeds those attributable to 60 other infectious diseases including HIV and tuberculosis, according to new ... Hepatitis C-related mortality continues to increase in the US Liz Highleyman / 19 October 2015 Deaths related to hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection continue to rise in the US despite the advent of highly effective interferon-free therapy, according to a CDC study presented on Saturday at IDWeek ... High HCV infection rate in sub-Saharan Africa, with prevalence especially high in people with HIV Michael Carter / 26 June 2015 Prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is high in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a report in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. UK investigators conducted a meta-analysis of 213 studies involving approximately 1.2 million people ... 1% of US deaths related to viral hepatitis Michael Carter / 30 September 2013 Viral hepatitis was associated with approximately 1% of deaths in the US in 2010, research published in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases demonstrates. The burden of mortality associated with hepatitis B virus ... ← Prev123Next → 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 Email bulletin archive