Hepatitis C News

• DOJ Complaint Flags HCV Drug Denials for People With Addiction The Harvard Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation and AIDS Alabama allege that Alabama Medicaid has an illegal policy of denying HCV treatment to people who have used illicit drugs or alcohol.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2022
• New HIV Care Guidelines From the European AIDS Clinical Society The revised 2021 European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) Guidelines contain extensive updates, guidance on COVID-19 management, and offer a broader range of preferred choices than US guidelines.
  Medscape Medical News, May 05, 2022
• Cases of Hepatitis of Unknown Origin in Children Raise Alarm The cases cannot be attributed to the most common hepatitis viruses, and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control warns of a possible epidemic.
  Medscape Medical News, April 29, 2022
• Many on Medicare Can't Afford to Fill Cancer Rx Medicare beneficiaries without a low-income subsidy are much less likely to fill high-price drug prescriptions to treat cancer and other conditions because of out-of-pocket costs.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2022
• Medicare Part D Beneficiaries Without Low-Income Subsidy Less Apt to Fill Prescriptions for Pricey Drugs Medicare Part D beneficiaries who don't qualify to receive low-income subsidies often do not fill prescriptions for high-price specialty drugs, a new study finds.
  Reuters Health Information, April 06, 2022
• Pulmonologists Advise Screening Ukrainian Refugees for TB The incidence of tuberculosis is much higher in Ukraine than in Germany, and German medical societies are requesting staff and funding to screen Ukrainian refugees for this disease.
  Medscape Medical News, March 31, 2022
• AAGP 2022 New Data Focus Need for Tailored Schizophrenia Care in Elderly Older adults with schizophrenia are not a homogenous patient population with various sub-groups that differ significantly in terms of comorbid illness, mortality rates and causes.
  Medscape Medical News, March 25, 2022
• To Engage Injection Drug Users in HCV Care, Go to Where They Are Embedding HCV treatment within needle exchange programs gets more injection drug users treated and cured, a randomized controlled trial has found.
  Medscape Medical News, March 17, 2022
• Veterans Potentially Exposed to HIV, HCV at Georgia Hospital Nearly 5000 patients may have been exposed to diseases from improperly cleaned equipment.
  Medscape Medical News, March 08, 2022
• Biomarkers in Saliva May Detect Hepatocellular Carcinoma MicroRNA biomarkers may provide a means of accurately and remotely testing for this increasingly common cancer, according to a small pilot study's results.
  Medscape Medical News, February 10, 2022
• THINKER-NEXT Studies the Transplant of HCV-Infected Kidneys THINKER-NEXT trial aims to determine the risks and benefits of transplanting kidneys from hepatitis C-infected donors into hepatitis C-negative recipients.
  Medscape Medical News, January 10, 2022
• HIV+ Patients Get Good Outcomes After Kidney or Liver Transplant Patient and graft survival outcomes after 15 years support transplant benefits in HIV population.
  Medscape Medical News, January 05, 2022
• USCHA 2021 New Hepatitis B Vaccination Recommendations Praised With hepatitis B vaccination rates low and infection rates rising, experts hope the new recommendations will raise clinician awareness and simplify screening.
  Medscape Medical News, December 16, 2021
• Free Access to Antivirals for Hep C Reduces Mortality Rate A strategy to identify and treat people infected with hepatitis C leads to a reduction in mortality rates, new research confirms.
  Medscape Medical News, December 15, 2021
• AASLD 2021 Cirrhosis Comorbidities Tied to Worse Outcomes Compensated cirrhosis patients with three comorbidities may be as bad off as decompensated patients with none.
  Medscape Medical News, December 06, 2021
• AGA Clinical Care Pathway: NAFLD and NASH The American Gastroenterological Association recently published a Clinical Care Pathway for screening, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
  Medscape Medical News, November 19, 2021
• AASLD 2021 Liver Cancer Risk Lingers Even After HCV Eradication Risk for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is lower for patients who have sustained viral responses after drug therapy for hepatitis C, but this treatment does not cure fibrosis, a common cause of HCC.
  Medscape Medical News, November 17, 2021
• Skyrocketing Demand for Liver Transplant Among Older Americans Over the past two decades, the need for liver transplant in older adults has risen sharply, due to rising rates of NASH, according to new research.
  Reuters Health Information, November 15, 2021
• AASLD 2021 Age, Geography Predict COVID Vaccination of Vets With Cirrhosis Younger age, residence in the southern United States, smoking status, and fewer comorbidities were all significantly predictive of the probability that veterans with cirrhosis would shun vaccination.
  Medscape Medical News, November 16, 2021
• HCV in Pregnancy: One Piece of a Bigger Problem Mirroring the opioid crisis, maternal and newborn hepatitis C infections more than doubled in the United States between 2009 and 2019, research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, November 05, 2021