HCV - Files on infected blood destroyed

Files on infected blood destroyed
BBC News - Jan 12 11:16 PM
The government admits most of its files on the infection of patients by NHS blood products were destroyed.Save to My Web

Woman gets hepatitis C after blood transfusions
Irish Examiner - Jan 29 5:28 PM
By Catherine Shanahan THE Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) has been unable to establish how a woman who received three blood transfusions subsequently developed hepatitis C.Save to My Web

Hepatitis, 'the silent killer,' driven out of the shadows
USA Today - Jan 22 6:48 PM
Until recent years, there was little the medical profession could do to help patients who had hepatitis B. That has changed. Today there are five medications for hepatitis B, including two approved in 2005.Save to My Web

Girl, 7, finds mother dead of overdose
icWales - Jan 27 9:54 AM
THE body of a mother who died of a heroin overdose was discovered by her seven-year-old daughter when she picked a lock with a knife. An inquest heard that Melanie Howells told her daughter Ayla she was going for a bath after the pair watched Coronation Street on the night she died.Save to My Web

Health Business
UPI - Jan 09 1:20 PM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Vertex said Monday its protease inhibitor VX-950 used with standard therapy dramatically cuts hepatitis C (HCV) viral loads.Save to My Web