Hepatitis B
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What Is Liver Cancer? What Causes Liver Cancer?...autoimmune hepatitis and Wilson's disease. Chronic infection with HBV or HCV. Chronic infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV) increases the risk of liver cancer. Cirrhosis. This progressive and irreversible... In this article: Cancer, Hepatocellular carcinoma, Hepatitis, Hepatitis B, Surgery, Analgesic, Autoimmune hepatitis, Cryoablation, Liver transplantation, and Obesity |
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New Kerala | 1 day ago
'Injection Safety Week' focused on safe injection practices
The use of AD syringes will lower the risk of person-to-person transmission of blood-borne diseases, particularly AIDS, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV infections. Hindustan Syringes and Medical Devices Ltd (HMD), a medical devices...
In this article: AIDS, Hepatitis C, HIV, Transmission, New Delhi, and India
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Hepatitis B most common cause of chronic liver disease
Varanasi, Nov 25 : 'Hepatitis B' has emerged as the most deadly and common cause of chronic liver disease, including cirrhosis and liver cancer, worldwide. Talking to newspersons here today, Dr V K Dixit, the Head of department of...
In this article: Hepatitis B virus, Transmission, India, Cancer, Hepatitis C, AIDS Virus, and Banaras Hindu University
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Seeking Alpha | 4 days ago
GlaxoSmithKline Seeks to Commercialize Viread in China for Hepatitis B
.../ GSK GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Gilead Sciences (GILD) agreed on an Asian marketing plan for their jointly owned treatment for hepatitis B, Viread® (tenofovir disoproxil fumarate). GSK will have exclusive rights to commercialize the drug...
In this article: Tenofovir, GlaxoSmithKline, HIV, Lamivudine, Gilead Sciences, China, Reverse transcriptase, FDA, and Taiwan
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Centre Daily Times | 5 days ago
Gilead and GlaxoSmithKline Announce Agreement to Commercialize Viread® for Chronic Hepatitis B in Key Asian Countries
...announced a licensing agreement to commercialize Viread® (tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B (HBV) infection in adults in five countries in Asia. The companies' combined commercialization activities will...
In this article: Gilead, GlaxoSmithKline, HBV, Tenofovir, Adefovir, Chronic hepatitis, Gilead Sciences, Asia, HIV, and Trademark
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Medical News Today | November 20, 2009
Why Hepatitis B Hits Men Harder Than Women
...of unusual liver proteins, found only in males, that may help explain the long-standing mystery of why the hepatitis B virus (HBV) sexually discriminates -- hitting men harder than women. Their study has been published online in ACS'...
In this article: Inflammation, Cancer, and China
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Times of India | November 19, 2009
Donated blood may be unsafe even after test
...department of transfusion medicine ran the samples through the Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) and found five samples to contain Hepatitis B and Hep C virus. This saved the lives of 15 people who could have got transfused with the infected blood.
In this article: HIV, Hep C, Blood transfusion, Malaria, Hepatitis, and Transmission
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Hepatitis B targets men more viciously than women
Washington, Nov 19 : The Hepatitis B virus (HBV) targets men more readily than women, triggering serious complications like cirrhosis and liver cancer, says a new study. Men infected with HBV are also six times more likely than women to...
In this article: ACS, Cancer, Hepatitis B virus, Second Military Medical University, Washington, and China
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New treatment for hemophilia launched in India
...go a long way," Srivastava said. Almost 10 to 14 percent of those with hemophilia are also infected by Hepatitis B and 24 to 30 percent infected by Hepatitis C, according to the July 2009 issue of the Indian Journal of Medical Research.
In this article: Hepatitis C, Hemophilia, HIV, Factor VIII, Christian Medical College, and CMC
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BARACLUDE(R) (entecavir) Demonstrated Greater Antiviral Efficacy Compared To Adefovir In New Study Of Chronic Hepatitis B Patients With Cirrhosis
...Disease / Hepatitis News BARACLUDE(R) (entecavir) Demonstrated Greater Antiviral Efficacy Compared To Adefovir In New Study Of Chronic Hepatitis B Patients With Cirrhosis Article Date: 03 Nov 2009 - 4:00 PST Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE:...
In this article: Adefovir, Entecavir, Lamivudine, Chronic Hepatitis B, Decompensation, Inflammation, American Association, Hepatitis, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Medical advice
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Hepatitis B doesn't raise pancreatic cancer risk
...cancer, say researchers. However, the overall analysis has revealed that only age is significant predictor for pancreatic cancer. Hepatitis B is an inflammation of the liver caused by a viral infection. 'We looked at the...
In this article: Pancreatic cancer, Inflammation, American Association, HIV, Henry Ford Hospital, Washington, and Boston
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Hepatitis B is a disease caused by HBV hepatitis B virus which infects the liver of hominoidae, including humans, and causes an inflammation called hepatitis. Originally known as "serum hepatitis", the disease has caused epidemics in parts of Asia and Africa, and it is endemic in China. About a third of the world's population, more than 2 billion people, have been infected with the hepatitis B virus. This includes 350 million chronic carriers of the virus. Transmission of hepatitis B virus results from exposure to infectious blood or body fluids containing blood.
The acute illness causes liver inflammation, vomiting, jaundice and—rarely—death. Chronic hepatitis B may eventually cause liver cirrhosis and liver cancer—a fatal disease with very poor response to current chemotherapy. The infection is preventable by vaccination.
Hepatitis B virus is an hepadnavirus—hepa from hepatotrophic and dna because it is a DNA virus—and it has a circular genome composed of partially double-stranded DNA. The viruses replicate through an RNA intermediate form by reverse transcription, and in this respect they are similar to retroviruses. Although replication takes place in the liver, the virus spreads to the blood where virus-specific proteins and their corresponding antibodies are found in infected people. Bloods test for these proteins and antibodies are used to diagnose the infection.
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