Contaminated duodenoscopes have caused multiple outbreaks of multidrug-resistant infections with sometimes lethal consequences; until these instrument... More »
The global disease burden of viral hepatitis grew substantially between 1990 and 2013 despite other infectious diseases decreasing in prevalence over ... More »
Elevated alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels in HIV-positive individuals can be a reliable indicator of chronic liver diseases, a leading cause of d... More »
Among patients with hepatitis C virus infection who were in compensated cirrhosis, sustained viral response was associated with significantly lower ra... More »
Among patients with immune-mediated diseases and a history of malignancy, cancer recurrence rates were similar regardless of whether they received tum... More »
Adults with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) who underwent psychotherapy improved more than about 75% of controls, and the effect “remained significan... More »
State Medicaid programs denied nearly half of requests to cover direct-acting antiviral drugs for patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection.... More »
BOSTON – No winter spike in Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) rates was seen among hospitalized patients after testing methodologies and frequen... More »
A 45-year-old woman who was admitted with concurrent primary biliary cirrhosis or cholangitis (PBC) and bullous pemphigoid died 5 days after admittanc... More »
