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CDC confirms first U.S. case of deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome

Posted on: 03/05/2014 - 00:10

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed the first case of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus in the United States. The patient, a health care worker who...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Hepatitis C drugs pricey, but cure is priceless

Posted on: 28/04/2014 - 18:05

It was almost as if someone decided April would be hepatitis C month. In case you hadn’t notice, April saw publication of six separate articles in the New England Journal of Medicine on what were...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Hepatitis C drugs pricey, but cure is priceless

Posted on: 28/04/2014 - 18:05

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Simeprevir and sofosbuvir combo offers high SVR rates

Posted on: 24/04/2014 - 19:10

LONDON – Cure rates of 93%-100% were achieved in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus genotype 1 treated with both simeprevir and sofosbuvir despite the presence of advanced cirrhosis in a phase...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

All-oral, triple-acting HCV regimen cures more than 90% of cirrhotic cases

Posted on: 18/04/2014 - 18:50

LONDON – More than 90% of patients with chronic hepatitis C and compensated cirrhosis treated with a triple-acting, all-oral, direct-acting antiviral (DAA) regimen achieved sustained virologic...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Antiviral combo pill cures HCV in 8-12 weeks

Posted on: 16/04/2014 - 18:55

LONDON – A single daily pill containing two novel antiviral agents produced sustained virologic response rates of more than 90% in as little as 8-12 weeks in three multicenter, open-label phase III...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

New data question oseltamivir’s influenza efficacy, safety

Posted on: 10/04/2014 - 00:01

A new systematic review of clinical studies of the oral anti-influenza drug oseltamivir that included a substantial amount of clinical data that were not part of previously published assessments...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Federal government releases updated viral hepatitis action plan

Posted on: 08/04/2014 - 17:15

The federal government on April 4 published a 3-year update of its viral hepatitis action plan that...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Antipsychotics’ risk in dementia revised upward

Posted on: 08/04/2014 - 05:01

ORLANDO – The mortality risk associated with prescription of antipsychotics or valproic acid for behavioral disturbances in patients with dementia is considerably greater than previously estimated,...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Study highlights progress, challenges in nosocomial infections

Posted on: 27/03/2014 - 21:40

Onein twenty-five hospitalized patients on any given day has an infection acquired from health care, and as many as one in nine of those will die. At a press briefing, Dr. Michael Bell discussed...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

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