Recommendations are presented for testing and clinical management of health care personnel exposed to the hepatitis C virus in a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance report.
Routine hepatitis C virus testing at federally qualified health centers would be cost-effective and could improve outcomes for people with HCV infections.
By providing bundled HIV and HCV testing, substance use disorder treatment programs may create increased awareness of infection status among people with substance abuse disorders.
Researchers found that no patients with concomitant COVID-19 and hepatitis B virus infection progressed to severe or critically ill status during hospitalization, but many had abnormal liver function tests on admission.
TDF therapy resulted in greater rates of elastographic reversion of cirrhosis in patients with chronic hepatitis B at year 5 compared with entecavir.
A combined hepatitis A and typhus vaccine in Australia for use in patients aged > 16 years was shown to be well-tolerated in children aged 2 to 16 years.
Study data supports the long-term efficacy and safety of besifovir dipivoxil maleate (BSV) for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B (CHB).
Patients using statins had a lower risk for any acute liver injury outcome within 18 months compared with non-users, regardless of HIV and/or hepatitis C virus (HCV) status.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends screening adolescents and adults at increased risk for hepatitis B virus infection.
The first guidelines for assessing the eligibility of patients with NASH for inclusion in clinical studies were released.
