Peginterferon - Screening Test Available to Detect an Antibody to Hepatitis C

Screening Test Available to Detect an Antibody to Hepatitis C
International News Service, Australia - Mar 21, 2006... As recent as 15 years ago, hepatitis C infection developed in about 10 percent of patients who had blood transfusions (especially those who had received ...

Talc Retinopathy
New England Journal of Medicine (subscription), MA - Mar 22, 2006... A recent liver biopsy for the evaluation of the patient's hepatitis C infection showed abundant talc particles under polarized light (Panel C). The hepatic ...

Idenix Announces Licensing of Valopicitabine (NM283) by Novartis
Boursorama, France - Mar 28, 2006... As the prevalence of severe liver disease attributable to hepatitis C rises, deaths due to complications from hepatitis C infection, currently 8,000 to 10,000 ...

GASTROINTESTINAL CARE - DOCTORS DRAW UP STRATEGY TO SAVE
ITNews, Italy - Mar 14, 2006... Alcoholic liver disease and obesity-related fatty liver disease are increasing at an "alarming rate" along with hepatitis C infection. ...

Human Genome Sciences Reports Positive Interim Results of Phase 2 ...
PR Newswire (press release), NY - Mar 14, 2006... Human Genome Sciences is developing Albuferon for use in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C. Hepatitis C infection is an inflammation of the liver caused by ...

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Adopts Stockholder Rights Agreement
Yahoo! News (press release) - Mar 17, 2006... "Our recently announced positive human safety data for Tarvacin in the treatment of hepatitis C infection and increasing evidence of the broad potential of ...