All the news Showing 10 of 45 articles from: Diagnosis and monitoringGet an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources Self-sampling for hepatitis C improves diagnosis rate in the Netherlands Keith Alcorn / 01 June 2022 Online risk assessment for hepatitis C and home-based sampling for HCV-RNA testing proved acceptable, easy to use and resulted in a high rate of diagnosis of chronic hepatitis C infections among gay ... Universal hepatitis C screening in pregnancy improves case detection Keith Alcorn / 23 February 2022 Implementing universal testing for hepatitis C during pregnancy improved case detection 7.5-fold compared to the previous regime of risk-based screening, a research group from the University of Pittsburgh reported last week at the ... 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 ... Outreach to homeless in England achieved large-scale testing for hepatitis C during the COVID-19 lockdown Keith Alcorn / 25 March 2021 Outreach to homeless people in England housed in temporary accommodation during the COVID-19 pandemic led to over 1200 to be tested for hepatitis C, one in ten to test positive for active ... Minimal monitoring of hepatitis C treatment is safe and effective Keith Alcorn / 17 November 2020 Hepatitis C treatment with no monitoring visits during treatment is safe and leads to a high cure rate, an international study reported on Monday at the online AASLD Liver Meeting. The study was ... 90% of people who inject drugs in United States missed opportunities for HIV or hepatitis C tests Keith Alcorn / 27 February 2020 Around 90% of people who inject drugs in the United States missed opportunities for HIV or hepatitis C virus testing between 2010 and 2017, a review of more than 840,000 healthcare visits shows. ... What do people who inject drugs think of point-of-care HCV testing? Keith Alcorn / 20 May 2019 Point-of-care testing to diagnose hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has the potential to eliminate the need for multiple appointments to confirm chronic infection. An oral antibody test can provide a result in ... Simplified monitoring for hepatitis C is as effective as standard monitoring Keith Alcorn / 16 April 2019 People who had a simplified monitoring schedule of hepatitis C viral load tests at the beginning of treatment and 12 weeks after completing treatment were just as likely to be cured as ... Is opt-out testing for HCV improving testing rates in UK prisons? Keith Alcorn / 04 April 2019 Testing rates for hepatitis C virus (HCV) in prisons in the United Kingdom remain far below the national minimum target of 50% and without radical change, prison testing rates will pose a ... Majority of US young adults who use drugs are not tested for hepatitis C or HIV Liz Highleyman / 16 October 2018 Only about a third of adolescents and young adults diagnosed with opioid use disorder in the United States are screened for hepatitis C virus (HCV) or HIV, even though injection drug use is ... ← First12345Next → Other pages in this section Latest news All the news Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Hepatitis C Transmission and prevention Diagnosis and monitoring Disease course and symptoms HCV and coinfections Living with HCV Treatment issues Side effects Therapies Liver transplants 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