Hepatitis C diagnoses increasing
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The number of people with the severe liver disease hepatitis C has soared, latest figures show.
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A needle-exchange program is the best way to stop the alarming increase of HIV and hepatitis C in Canadian prisons, medical and legal groups said Wednesday.
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Forget the liver biopsy. Now it's possible to detect advanced fibrosis -- a complication of many liver diseases including hepatitis B, hepatitis C, fatty liver disease and hemochromatosis -- by means of a simple breath test.
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OTTAWA - A compensation fund for people who contracted hepatitis C through tainted blood between 1986 and 1990 could be extended to those who got the disease outside that time frame, the federal health minister said Wednesday.
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Fueling the continuing debate over the safety of the popular hepatitis B vaccine, a new study suggests that it contributes to a tiny increase in the number of multiple sclerosis cases.
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Medical advances are forcing more patients and families to confront ever more grueling choices about living and dying.
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More than 550 patients who underwent shoulder investigations over seven years have been offered blood tests to establish whether they were accidentally infected with diseases such as HIV or hepatitis.
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A simple blood test could remove the need for painful invasive tests to detect liver disease, its developers say.
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In a major policy about-face, Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh announced yesterday that he&#39;s considering compensating more people who contracted hepatitis C through tainted blood.
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A record 7,000 people were diagnosed with HIV last year, according to figures released yesterday. The number of new cases of the virus that causes Aids has grown by around
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What do you think of the Medicare drug discount-card program? (Check all that apply.). I&#39;m eligible but I don&#39;t use it. Biopsy results confirm a young Dublin man has contracted the human form of mad cow disease.
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A technique for identifying early liver damage could help improve detection of the deadly condition cirrhosis.
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HIV and hepatitis C infections are &quot;[r]ampant&quot; in Canadian prisons and present a &quot;clear and present health risk&quot; to inmate populations, prison guards and the general public, according to a report released Wednesday by the Ontario Medical Association
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NEW YORK  - People infected with the  hepatitis C virus risk developing liver cancer, and now  Japanese researchers have identified several factors that  increase that risk.  Being male, advancing age, high liver enzyme levels and low  cholesterol levels all increase the likelihood of liver cancer  occurring in someone with hepatitis C but no current symptoms,  they report.
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Sep 24, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - United Kingdom health officials this week began telling several thousand Britons they may face a slightly increased risk of contracting variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) because they received blood products from
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NEW YORK  - Heavy alcohol use, diabetes,  and viral hepatitis combine synergistically to raise the risk  of developing liver cancer, according to a new report.
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A new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says new HIV and AIDS diagnoses rose 11 percent among homosexual and bisexual men from 2000 to 2003, increasing