Head-to-Head study results: Pegetron vs. Pegasys
(January 14, 2008)

Shared Crack Pipes May Spread Hepatitis C Virus (December 12, 2007 )

A new study by the University of Victoria’s Centre for Addictions Research (CARBC) suggests that the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) could possibly be passed on between crack smokers who share pipes.

HepCBC News: New Clinical Trial

Researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center are evaluating a Japanese/Chinese herbal medicine called Sho-saiko-to to see if it can help patients with chronic hepatitis C for whom other treatments (interferon with or without ribavirin) have been unsuccessful.

 

NIH Consensus Report on the Management of Hepatitis C: 2002 - the preliminary report.

Read the preliminary report from the NIH consensus statement along with some general discussion points by Alan Franciscus.

The NIH Consensus Conference on the Management of Hepatitis C:  2002. Part 1

Part One covers an introduction to the NIH Conference and summaries of sessions in the areas of natural history and hepatocellular carcinoma.

The NIH Consensus Conference on the Management of Hepatitis C:  2002. Part 2

Part Two covers summaries of sessions in the areas of epidemiology and spread as well as treatment of hepatitis C.

The NIH Consensus Conference on the Management of Hepatitis C:  2002. Part 3

Part 3 covers session summaries on predicting treatment response, liver biopsy - the role of and a review of clinic data, children and HCV, patients with normal ALTs, patients with advance HCV disease, and acute hepatitis C.

The NIH Consensus Conference on the Management of Hepatitis C: 2002. Part 4

Part 4 covers session summaries on hepatitis C and HIV coinfection, injection drug use and HCV, alcohol and HCV, special populations, therapy side effect management, and future HCV therapies.