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Doctor at center of hepatitis C scare taken into custodyLas Vegas SunBy Dave Toplikar (contact) Dipak Desai, the man who was at the center of the hepatitis C scare that swirled through Southern Nevada in 2007 and 2008, was taken into state custody Thursday morning. Desai made a brief appearance in County District ...See all stories on this topic »

Las Vegas Sun

New Treatment Can Cure Hepatitis CWLNSHepatitis C attacks the liver and many people who have it never show symptoms. Now, some new drugs offer new hope to cure the disease. More than 3 million people across the nation have Hepatitis C and most have no idea they're infected. ...See all stories on this topic »

Money to help battle Hep CSudbury StarBy Harold Carmichael/The Sudbury Star The provincial government is providing additional funding to help address the high rate in the Sudbury and Manitoulin districts of people who have tested positive for hepatitis C. Along with $644364 to the Access ...See all stories on this topic »

Hepatitis C transmission still high among injection drug usersClinical AdvisorEfforts to control blood-borne infections have dramatically reduced HIV incidence among injection drug users (IDUs), but declines in hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection have been less substantial, prompting health officials to call for better prevention ...See all stories on this topic »

FDA hearing set for Vertex Hep C drugBizjournals.comVertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: VRTX) will glean some important insight into the fate of its closely-watched potential treatment for hepatitis C on April 28. The US Food and Drug Administration has announced it will hold an advisory panel meeting ...See all stories on this topic »

Clinical Trial on Hepatitis C Holds Promise For PatientsMedIndiaby on March 17, 2011 at 9:28 AM A clinical trial of a new Hepatitis C therapy has shown that it could potentially reduce treatment time, with fewer side effects than existing drugs. The side effects of existing treatments are so severe ...See all stories on this topic »

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Free hepatitis treatment: Funds on hand but dept yet to register patientsDAWN.comBy Ashfaq Yusufzai | From the Newspaper PESHAWAR, March 16: Despite having been provided the needed funds three months ago, the provincial health department is yet to start registration of hepatitis C patients for receiving free treatment under the ...See all stories on this topic »

Bulletin urges health care providers not to reuse single-use devicesLas Vegas Review-JournalThree years ago, more than 40000 patients at Dr. Dipak Desai's endoscopy clinics were notified that they had to be tested for hepatitis C and HIV after authorities saw his staffers reusing syringes and single-dose vials of anesthetics. ...See all stories on this topic »

US patent for Achillion HCV drug, related compoundsPharmaceutical Business Review7906619, covering composition-of-matter and method of use claims for hepatitis C virus (HCV) drug ACH-1625 and structurally related compounds. ACH-1625 is Achillion's phase 2 protease inhibitor to treat hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. ...See all stories on this topic »