Hepatitis C Combination Therapy - HCV Vaccine Progress

HCV Vaccine Progress
The development of a HCV vaccine is very exciting, even to patients already infected. Although the vaccine will not help them direcly, it shows definite progress in understanding and outsmarting this virus that is known to be difficult to combat...

MedMira Rapid Test
The start of the New Year was accompanied by the European Patent Office granting a patent for a rapid HCV test. Now that the technology is here, let's hope the test proves accurate, with high levels of selectivity and specificity....

GlobeImmune Recruiting for Clinical Trial
While GlobeImmune's therapeutic vaccine for Hepatitis C is only in Phase Ib of clinical trials, their focus on immunity to the Hepatitis C virus is fascinating. GI-5005 is based on tarmogens being potent activators of antigen-specific immune responses against disease....

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