World Health Organization-The Hidden Epidemic-Chinese Parent-Hepatitis C-Action Plan

WHO launches action plan against 'hidden' hepatitis

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday measures to fight the "hidden epidemic" of hepatitis which kills more than one million people a year. read more..

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Hospital Technician-David Kwiatkowski-Exeter Hospital-U.S. Attorney-Hepatitis C

Tech in NH hepatitis C case worked in Mich., Md.

A traveling hospital technician accused of causing a hepatitis C outbreak in New Hampshire previously worked in Maryland and Michigan health care facilities, officials said Friday. read more..

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Food And Drug Administration-Achillion Pharmaceuticals-Hepatitis C-Fast Track-Aim

Achillion's hepatitis C drug gets FDA fast track

(Reuters) - The U.S. Food And Drug Administration granted a fast track designation to Achillion Pharmaceuticals Inc's experimental hepatitis C drug ACH-3102, currently in an early-stage trial. The fast-track status is designed to expedite the regulatory review of drugs that aim to treat serious diseases and fill unmet medical needs. The New Haven, Connecticut-based company got a fast track designation in January for another of its experimental hepatitis C (HCV) drug ACH-1625, which was in a mid-stage trial. ... read more..

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Hepatitis C Infection-Health Authorities-Liver Disease

Hepatitis C kills more Americans than HIV: study

A patient is tested for hepatitis C

More Americans died in 2007 of hepatitis C infection, which causes incurable liver disease, than from the virus that causes AIDS, US health authorities said this week. read more..

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