Hepatitis C-HCV news 2008-07-23

These figures may be over-estimates, as there may be confusion between the different types of viral hepatitis, and it is not standard practice to screen gay and bisexual men for hepatitis C in sexual health clinics. However the researchers believe that responses to the question on positive diagnoses are likely to be more accurate.

As may be expected, having hepatitis C was significantly more common among men with diagnosed HIV than other men. A total of 65 pct. of men with current hepatitis C infection also had diagnosed HIV, and 35 pct. were either HIV-negative or untested.

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She helped start the California Hepatitis Alliance, founded the Nor-Cal Hepatitis C Network, was a founding member the National Hepatitis C Advocacy Council and a member of the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable and the California Hepatitis C Task Force.

Sherris involvement in the community had already been growing, Lou said. When the church started its program "Babies out of Bondage" - with church members caring for babies born to mothers serving time in prison at the Valley State Prison for Women at Chowchilla - Sherri was one of the first to take a child, Lou remembered.

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Hepatitis C virus infection is the most common cause of the liver disease cirrhosis and the most common indication for liver transplant for U. S. adults, according to background information in the article. Currently, about 17,000 patients are on the waiting list for a liver transplant. Many medical centers have expanded donor criteria, including increasing age limits, to increase the pool of available organs. "There are concerning reports, however, in recipients with hepatitis C virus that extended criteria donors, particularly older donors, are associated with poorer outcome, especially with early and severe hepatitis C virus recurrence in the donor graft," the authors write.

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Receiving a liver from a donor older than age 60 does not appear to be associated with transplant failure, death or recurrent disease in the next five years among transplant patients with the hepatitis C virus, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. - Medicine/Health Internal Medicine Liver Transplantation

The Summit County Community Care Clinic has confirmed two positive tests for the disease since January and has records of 30 county residents who have been exposed, said Carolynn Lyle, a certified physicians assistant at the clinic.

About 85,000 Coloradans and 4 million Americans have been exposed to the disease, according to Laura Ginnett, community outreach director with Denver-based Hepatitis C Connection.

SUMMIT COUNTY Local health officials are concerned that increasing numbers of hepatitis-C cases are going undetected as exposure climbs.

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But after the Kent County Health Department issued a health alert last November, urging more than 13,000 of Stokes patients to be tested for HIV and hepatitis, Evelyn McKnight, one of 99 patients infected with hepatitis C at a Fremont, Neb. , oncology clinic, invited Kooyers to join a new organization called HONOReform, pushing to outlaw Stokes type of practices at the federal level.

Of the 776 Stokes patients tested at public facilities (others had tests at their doctors offices), only six were positive for hepatitis C, slightly below the rate for the entire population. State health officials said there is no way to find out whether the six were infected at Stokes office. None tested positive for HIV.

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She and her husband, Dr. Thomas McKnight, a family physician, traced the disease to the cancer clinic, where a nurse regularly used a syringe to draw blood from patients, then used the same syringe to draw saline from a large bag, contaminating the entire bag. The doctor who ran the clinic taught her to do it that way, the nurse later testified.

Evelyn McKnight beat the breast cancer that could have killed her, but her doctors unsanitary practice infected her and 98 other patients with another life-threatening disease: hepatitis C.

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S doctor said that she is responding well to anti-viral medication and the problem may clear up over time.

The virus was discovered during a routine medical exam, and is likely a result of the

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Natalie Cole said today that she has been diagnosed with Hepatitis C. - NME New Musical Express music news

S body probably first invented Hepatitis C, the world didnt know what to think. On the one hand AIDS and mouth cancer already took up so much of our time we just didnt think we would ever need a brand new disease again. On the other hand Tommy made it, and everything he touches turns to bonafide gold. Except, you now, music and albums and basically anything rhythmic.

Its because her immune system is now naturally fortified with boat loads of Hepatitis C. This is excellent for her on several different levels. Shell no longer have to spend hundreds of dollars on oranges every winter thats nice for her. She can put that saved money right into studio-time.

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