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Programs may curb hepatitis C in drug users

Reuters India

By Amy Norton NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Programs that give injection drug

users clean needles or safer drug substitutes may help cut their odds of

contracting the liver infection hepatitis C, a new study suggests. The hepatitis

C virus is passed ...

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tracks?

EurekAlert (press release)

Targeted multi-drug treatments for hepatitis C patients that could stop the

virus in its tracks have come a step closer, thanks to researchers at the

University of Leeds, UK. The study by Dr and colleagues,

published in the journal ...

See all stories on this topic »New Vertex ads focus on disease, not treatment

Boston Globe

“I can fight hepatitis C.'' On the radio, a reassuring voice says: “Hepatitis C

is a serious disease, but it can be cured. You can fight it. Now there's a

program to help you get ready.'' The poster and radio spots appear to be public

service messages ...

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Hepatitis prevention bid launched

BBC News

By Reevel Alderson BBC Scotland's social affairs correspondent A new voluntary

organisation has been launched to help improve the prevention of the

highly-infectious hepatitis B and C viruses. An estimated 50000 people in

Scotland carry the hepatitis C ...

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SGT. SHAFT: Widow questions how vet caught hepatitis C

Washington Times

Just like many, many soldiers receiving their immunizations from immunization

guns, he was immunized with hepatitis C, which was passed from the immunization

gun to each soldier. He also spoke of the unsafe practices in the military

hospital he worked ...

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