Hepatitis C - People With Chronic Hepatitis B To Benefit From Guidance On New Drugs

People With Chronic Hepatitis B To Benefit From Guidance On New Drugs
Medical News Today - The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has today issued guidance for the NHS in England and Wales recommending the use of two new drugs for treating hepatitis B. The guidance states that : - - - - Peginterferon alfa-2a is

Liver transplant program restarted
Arizona Daily Wildcat - Dr. Thomas Boyer, left, medical director of liver transplants at UMC, and transplant surgeon Dr. Ernesto P. Molmenti, who performed Thursday's surgery, discuss the first liver transplant performed at UMC in four years. The reactivation of UMC's Liver

Pharmacy Benefit
Managed Healthcare Executive - HEPATITIS B AND C are serious viral diseases that can lead to lifelong infection, cirrhosis, liver cancer, liver failure and death. They often produce chronic, hidden infections. An estimated 1.25 million Americans are infected with hepatitis B, and

BUSINESS DIGEST
San Jose Mercury News - Rambus, a Los Altos designer of high-speed memory chips, won a ruling Thursday requiring Samsung Electronics to turn over documents from a Justice Department price-fixing investigation. Rambus seeks the documents for a lawsuit in San Francisco

Teen Determined To Get Father Liver Transplant
WMTW - YORK, Maine -- Every girl dreams of having her father walk her down the aisle on her wedding day. One York County girl just hopes her father will be there. Katie Prouty s dad has hepatitis C. Now she is on a mission to get the disease on the radar

What's Happening
Tahoe Daily Tribune - The South Tahoe High School Booster Club will hold its March meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the high school library. The upcoming joint golf tournament with Whittell High School will be discussed. New proposals to enhance athletics will be addressed