Sentences with phrase «new hepatitis»

The Australian reported (paywalled) that new hepatitis C drugs topped the list of most costly medications subsidised on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) in the 2015 — 16 financial year, according to an analysis by Australian Prescriber magazine.

In the U.S., we spend more than $ 140 billion a year treating cancer, often with less health benefit than is provided by the new hepatitis C treatments.»

«New hepatitis C medication in children to be studied.»

Several protease inhibitors have subsequently been developed for HIV, but the new hepatitis C drugs are the first to tackle other viruses.

This new study is one of several testing new hepatitis C drugs that were published April 23 in an online edition of NEJM.

«The data suggests that state Medicaid policies for access to new hepatitis C therapies should be reviewed and revised in line with national and international clinical recommendations.»

Today I'm working with scientists, physicians, and policy - makers on implementing new HIV testing strategies, evaluating the adoption of new hepatitis medications, and assessing the impact of genome sequencing in society.

(On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control even released a report finding that new hepatitis C infection rates tripled between 2010 and 2015, in large part driven by needle - sharing among heroin addicts.)

Not exact matches

One big headline item: the new CDC report finding that the opioid and heroin addiction crisis is fueling a massive surge in hepatitis C cases.

It's been a busy week for health care news between some high - profile setbacks for certain major cancer drug makers, high - profile victories for others, the confirmation of a new FDA chief, health care merger drama, and a slew of public health reports about the opioid epidemic, hepatitis C, and U.S. life expectancy.

The ongoing American opioid and heroin epidemic is fueling another scourge: hepatitis C infections, according to a new Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report.

The news underlines a larger trend of a promising new class of drugs that could fundamentally shift the way hepatitis C is treated.

While most of the attention on pharmaceutical prices has been on new drugs for diseases like cancer, hepatitis C and high cholesterol, there is also growing concern about huge price increases on older drugs, some of them generic, that have long been mainstays of treatment.

If management is wrong, and hepatitis C sales accelerate to this downside even further, Gilead's shares are sure to print new lows as a result.

Health officials have confirmed three cases of hepatitis A linked to the product in Victoria and two in New South Wales.

A second brand of frozen mixed berries has been withdrawn from supermarket shelves across the country, as five cases of hepatitis A linked to the product are confirmed in New South Wales and Victoria.

The agriculture minister, Barnaby Joyce, said the government was considering a review of testing on imports under Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) as another case of hepatitis A was discovered, the first in Western Australia.

The CDC wants every infant vaccinated 3 times against hepatitis B starting with a shot the day of birth, but new research indicates that it is not even effective at preventing infection in the most susceptible populations: the infants of mothers infected with Hep B.

If you use drugs or get a new sexual partner while you are pregnant, or do not totally trust your partner, you should be tested for HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B at the beginning and near the end of each pregnancy.

Collins called for Congressional hearings after the FDA announced that more than 700 patients from the V.A. Western New York hospital in Buffalo could have been infected with hepatitis and HIV.

Also at 10 a.m., hundreds of advocates, public health experts, and New Yorkers living with hepatitis C will call on Cuomo and the state Legislature allocate $ 10.8 million in the state budget to tackle the disease, The Well, LOB, State Street, Albany.

Seven health - insurance companies in New York will change their criteria for covering costly drugs that cure chronic hepatitis C under the terms of agreements with Schneiderman's office.

Called Safer Consumption Spaces among those pushing the issue here in New York, the facilities also provide sterile equipment that reduces the risk of hepatitis C, abscesses, and other ailments that come from using in public bathrooms, city parks, and parking lots.

Test results for HIV and hepatitis C will be available in 20 minutes at a new «express clinic» in the Niagara County Sexual Health Center, the county Health Department announced Tuesday.

According to federal statistics, inmates have the highest rate of HIV in New York, compared to any other state, and many of those inmates are co-infected with hepatitis C. To fight that, the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS has a campaign that emphasizes public awareness, education and access to testing and treatment.

New York's attorney general has filed a lawsuit against an Albany - area health insurer that he says broke the law by denying coverage for expensive hepatitis C treatments until patients showed advanced symptoms of the disease such as moderate to severe liver scarring.

People who received kidneys from donors infected with hepatitis C did not become ill with the virus, thanks to treatment with newer drugs that can cure the disease, a small study reports.

«BOSON is a ground - breaking new study that provides information about how we can ensure the best outcomes for both GT - 2 and GT - 3 hepatitis C - infected patients.

Allen Goldberg, chair of Innovir, a New York - based biotech company that has licensed EGS technology, says researchers there have already had some success at EGS treatments of mice infected with a drug - resistant hepatitis virus.

A promising new avenue for treating hepatitis B has been reported by researchers at Hiroshima University who have developed a new animal model of the disease.

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Like Gilead, which aims to develop treatments for HIV / AIDS, hepatitis B and C, influenza, pulmonary arterial hypertension, and cystic fibrosis, other top employers accentuate the positive aspects of the life science industry by performing their R&D in entirely new areas.

She and colleagues treated 10 patients who received hepatitis C - positive kidneys with the new drug regimens.

Millions of RNA molecules can protect mice from the damage wrought by hepatitis B, a new study shows.

A new drug is offering dramatic cure rates for hepatitis C patients with two subtypes of the infection — genotype 2 and 3, say a team of scientists led by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers.

«This is particularly concerning because the majority of new and existing cases of hepatitis C in the U.S. exist among people who inject, or have injected drugs,» said Taylor.

Ledipasvir belongs to a promising new class of DAA drugs that work by blocking the NS5A protein, which the hepatitis C virus also needs to replicate.

An affordable hepatitis C combination treatment including the new drug candidate ravidasvir has been shown to be safe and effective, with extremely high cure rates for patients, including hard - to - treat cases, according to interim results from the Phase II / III STORM - C - 1 trial presented by the non-profit research and development organisation Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) at the International Liver Conference in Paris.

«The new sofosbuvir therapy offers a much - needed alternative to standard therapy with interferon, which can cause significant side effects for hepatitis C patients,» says the study's lead investigator, Dr. Ira Jacobson, chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Vincent Astor Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College.

Most states violate federal Medicaid law because they deny coverage for sofosbuvir, a new and highly effective treatment to cure hepatitis C, according to Lynn E. Taylor, M.D., director of The Miriam Hospital's HIV / Viral Hepatitis Coinfection Program.

With this in mind, Ian Lipkin and Amit Kapoorm, both at Columbia University in New York, set out to find a smaller animal that could serve as a model for hepatitis C.

The treatment of hepatitis C virus infections has taken a major step forward with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of two new drugs, telaprevir and boceprevir, for managing the disease.

«New combination therapy for hepatitis C.» ScienceDaily.

Vertex scientists and our collaborators are working on new medicines to cure or significantly advance the treatment of hepatitis C, cystic fibrosis, epilepsy and other life - threatening diseases.

«Many young people who are at risk for hepatitis C may acquire the infection and then not know it, and then through drug injection practices may transmit it to others,» said Brandon Marshall, associate professor of epidemiology in the Brown University School of Public Health and corresponding author of the new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

Hepatitis B Boosts Malaria Vaccine: Fragments of hepatitis B, which put the immune system on high alert, make a new malaria vaccine the most successful yet.

A new Journal of Internal Medicine study describes an innovative program to eliminate hepatitis C virus (HCV) as a public health threat in Iceland.

A new combination therapy allows chronic hepatitis C to be treated in a manner that is less aggressive yet equally efficient.

As public health officials worry that the increase of opioid use among young adults has helped to spread the hepatitis C virus to a new generation, a study in Rhode Island finds that while screening is common, the follow - up measures needed to stop the spread of the virus are significantly less so.

«We need to do everything we can to find effective drugs against the Zika virus, as changes in travel and climate have caused more tropical diseases to move into new parts of the globe,» said Kao, who has also spent 15 years studying the virus that causes hepatitis C.