Ultrasound (Cirrhosis)

Ultrasound
Title: UltrasoundCategory: Procedures and TestsCreated: 12/31/1997Last Editorial Review: 10/15/2005

Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
Title: Primary Biliary CirrhosisCategory: Diseases and ConditionsCreated: 12/31/1997Last Editorial Review: 9/17/2005

Vertex Progresses with VX-950
Vertex is the racehorse to watch right now. They are progressing quicky on their preliminary good results. While it's not yet time to line up for their treatment, we believe theirs will be first to market of the new approaches...

Health Tip: Nail Salon Safety
Title: Health Tip: Nail Salon SafetyCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/12/2005 1:59:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/12/2005 1:58:31 AM

Stage belongs to Seahawks' confident conductor (Cirrhosis)

Stage belongs to Seahawks' confident conductor
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 2 hours agoLife's never a straight line, and that's OK. Matt Hasselbeck will tell you that's the best and most essential part. The zig and the zag. The flops and thrills. The self-doubt and certainty. The conflicts and camaraderie. ...

Disney's Iger Plans Company's Largest Purchase in a Decade
Bloomberg - 1 hour agoJan. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Officer Robert Iger, less than four months into the job, is planning the media company's biggest acquisition in 10 years. A purchase of Pixar, maker of ...

How Bin Laden continues to elude US
Newsweek - 40 minutes agoJan. 19: NBC's Jim Miklaszewski reports on the ongoing search for Osama bin Laden, the world's best-known and so far most elusive terrorist. Your place for broadcast previews and a behind-the-scenes look at how the news we gather daily makes air. ...

Face Transplant Recipient's Habit Could Jeopardize Recovery
MedPage Today - 14 hours agoBy Neil Osterweil, Senior Associate Editor, MedPage Today. TUCSON, ARIZ. Jan. 19 - The French woman who received the world's first face transplant is reportedly doing well, but her surgeons are concerned that ...

Drug labels to get more user friendly
MarketWatch - 21 hours agoSAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Prescription drug inserts that often read like legal disclaimers and look like hieroglyphics will be redesigned to become more user friendly, federal health officials announced Wednesday. ...

What is Hepatitis C?(NC)-Hepatitis C is an infectious (Cirrhosis)

What is Hepatitis C?

(NC)-Hepatitis C is an infectious virus that is carried in the blood and harms the liver. About 240,000 Canadians are infected, many of whom are unaware that they even have it. The number of people with hepatitis C is increasing in Canada and around the world, primarily among those who share needles and other drug equipment. An estimated 5,000 Canadians - mostly young people - get this virus each year. p>

Although the hepatitis C virus has been around for a long time, it was only identified in 1989. It causes inflammation of the liver, which often progresses to cirrhosis (scarring that makes it difficult for the liver to function normally). Of the estimated 5,000 people that are newly infected each year, up to 70 percent experience no symptoms. For some, symptoms may not show up for 20 or 30 years. In the meantime, they may, unknowingly, be infecting others. That is why it is important to know if you are at risk and how to take preventative action.

If you think you have hepatitis C, or that you may be at risk, visit your doctor and ask for the simple blood test for this disease. For more information, contact a health care professional, and visit Health Canada's Web site at www.healthcanada.ca/hepc.

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Hepatitis C: Early Detection Means Better Health(NC)-Experts estimate (Cirrhosis)

Hepatitis C: Early Detection Means Better Health

(NC)-Experts estimate that 240,000 people in Canada are currently infected with hepatitis C, of whom only 30% know they have the virus. The only way to find out for sure if you have hepatitis C is through a blood test. Your doctor can order one for you. By taking this action you'll be doing yourself a favour because hepatitis C can be treated only if it has been detected. Untreated hepatitis C can lead to severe conditions that require long-term, intensive care.

For more information visit Health Canada's Web site at www.healthcanada.ca/hepc.

About The Author

News Canada provides a wide selection of current, ready-to-use copyright free news stories and ideas for Television, Print, Radio, and the Web.

News Canada is a niche service in public relations, offering access to print, radio, television, and now the Internet media, with ready-to-use, editorial "fill" items. Monitoring and analysis are two more of our primary services. The service supplies access to the national media for marketers in the private, the public, and the not-for-profit sectors. Your corporate and product news, consumer tips and information are packaged in a variety of ready-to-use formats and are made available to every Canadian media organization including weekly and daily newspapers, cable and commercial television stations, radio stations, as well as the Web sites Canadians visit most often. Visit News Canada and learn more about the NC services.