Hepatitis C can now be effectively treated, thanks to modern drugs. However, despite having been cured, some patients can go on to develop liver cancer. Currently, biannual ultrasound screening is ...

Hepatitis C can now be effectively treated, thanks to modern drugs. However, despite having been cured, some patients can go on to develop liver cancer. Currently, biannual ultrasound screening is ...

Improvements to the efficacy and side effects of hepatitis C medications have simplified the disease management calculus, tipping the scales towards treatment. The availability of effective oral ...

SuperSonic Imagine, the highly innovative medical imaging company that invented ShearWave™ Elastography, has applied this revolutionary technology to liver imaging, possibly reducing the need for many ...

Hepatitis C is appropriately recognized as a serious liver disease with significant morbidity and mortality. Although it may manifest as an acute infection, roughly 75% of cases progress to a chronic ...

This study was a retrospective one. Between January 1993 and May 2009, 42 children under 15 years old (mean age, 5.1 years; age range, 1-15 years) with the confirmed HBL or HCC were included into our ...

The patient was a previously healthy 44-year-old Mexican American woman whose chief complaint was jaundice and right upper quadrant pain. For about 1 year, she had the sensation of dry mouth; there ...

Hepatitis C can be cured in almost all cases with modern medication. However, if advanced liver damage is already present at the time of cure, there is still a residual risk of liver cancer and ...

An analysis was carried out on a cohort of 1,000 patients from 11 Andalusian hospitals. The project underscores the need for personalised medicine and individual evaluation of patients with hepatitis ...

More than 90 percent of people with chronic hepatitis C can be cured. Here are the steps that you and your doctor can take to treat the virus. If you’ve been diagnosed with hepatitis C — a viral ...

Ruth Juma* was diagnosed with hepatitis B after being ill for some time. Although she was devastated by the news, she felt relieved that she had finally found out what was ailing her. "I had visited ...