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• Re-treatment of hepatitis C is highly effective after the first combination fails

  Keith Alcorn / 24 June 2022

  Two combinations proved highly effective in curing hepatitis C in people who had experienced the failure of a previous combination containing an NS5A inhibitor, studies in Europe and New Zealand show. The findings, ...

• Short-course treatment prevents hepatitis C after organ transplant

  Keith Alcorn / 24 June 2022

  A seven-day course of direct-acting antiviral treatment started hours before an organ transplant prevented hepatitis C infection in everyone who received a transplant from a donor with hepatitis C, researchers from the Mayo ...

• People cured of hepatitis C remain at higher risk of death due to liver- and drug-related causes

  Keith Alcorn / 24 June 2022

  People who have been cured of hepatitis C remain at higher risk of dying from liver-related causes than the general population, but their risk of cardiovascular events goes down after being cured, ...

• Promoting hepatitis testing

  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 ...

• Severe acute hepatitis in children: uncertainty persists over causes and novelty

  Keith Alcorn / 24 May 2022

  The possible causes of cases of severe acute hepatitis in children continue to puzzle scientists and further work is needed to establish whether all countries are seeing unusual levels of severe liver ...