- Historically, treatment for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection consisted of weekly injections of interferon accompanied by daily oral doses of the ...
- Doctors in Barcelona recently reported an unexpected increase in liver cancer recurrence in people who had been or who are being treated for chronic hepatitis C ...
- Doctors in Vienna, Austria, recently reported a group of cases of liver cancer in 19 participants whose hepatitis C virus (HCV) was treated with direct acting ...
- Spurred by reports from other cities, doctors in Bologna, Italy, have reviewed their database to assess possible risk factors for liver cancer development and ...
- As mentioned earlier in this issue of TreatmentUpdate, reports from Barcelona and Vienna have emerged suggesting that exposure to direct acting antivirals ...
- The hepatitis C virus (HCV) protein NS5A plays an important role in the creation of new copies of HCV. As a result, pharmaceutical companies have developed (and ...
- In a study sponsored by Gilead Sciences called Astral-5, researchers in the United States tested the fixed-dose combination of sofosbuvir + velpatasvir (sold as ...
- Chronic HIV infection activates and inflames the immune system. Taking combination anti-HIV therapy (ART) every day and achieving and maintaining an ...
- Regular exercise has a broad and beneficial effect on people, from improving general health to more specific effects such as feeling more energetic, better ...
- In 1996 highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART, now simply called ART) became widely available in North America and Western Europe. For the first time ...
- Researchers in the Netherlands sought to measure and compare stiffening of the arteries (which is linked to cardiovascular disease) among 1,000 middle-aged ...
- In Canada and other high-income countries, the widespread use of potent combination anti-HIV therapy (ART) has greatly decreased the risk of AIDS-related ...