Various Articles that have been published about Hepatitis
C, such as:
Hidden Epidemic / Researchers, Policymakers Debate Tactics in Battle
Against Hepatitis C, August 02, 2001
Dr. Karen Seal is at the vanguard of an unsung and perhaps unpopular
public health crusade -- the battle to identify and treat injection
drug users infected with hepatitis C.
"If we don't start treating this population, the epidemic
is only going to get worse," said Seal, a University of California
at San Francisco researcher who will speak at a four-day conference
on hepatitis C that begins at San Francisco's Holiday Inn today.
Hepatitis C Virus has been called the silent epidemic. The name stems from the
nature of the disease. Hepatitis C Virus is a viral infection transmitted primarily
by the needles injection drug users share while shooting up.
"This is a disease nobody wants to pay for because the people
who have it are unattractive," said Joey Tranchina, executive
director of Hepatitis C Virus Global Foundation, the Redwood City nonprofit group
that organized the conference, which should draw several hundred
researchers to San Francisco.
Still, because it is far less deadly than HIV and is only rarely
transmitted through sexual contact, Hepatitis C Virus poses a lesser risk to the
general public and therefore has a tougher time winning support
for testing and treatment.
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DENVER
POST, 1/23/02
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In his "State of the State" address, Gov.
Bill Owens asked the Colorado legislature to repeal some health
care mandates that have driven up the cost of health insurance
for small business.
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Ann Jesse Goes to Washington |
On Tuesday,
December 14th, Hep C Connection’s Founding Executive Director,
Ann Jesse, and several other panelists, testified before the
Committee on Government Reform in a hearing titled Stalking
a Furtive Killer: A Review of the Federal Government’s Efforts
to Combat Hepatitis C. The purpose of the hearing was to
increase awareness of hepatitis C and the threat it poses to the
public health. It also examined epidemiological efforts to
combat the disease and provided an overview of current
associated efforts. |
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Aubrey Ogin is living with Hepatitis C |
Aubrey Ogin
of Pottstown likes to hang out with her friends, skateboard and
play the guitar. She’s a typical teen. But a dubious
distinction makes the quiet, attractive 15-year-old very
different from most kids her age. Aubrey has hepatitis C,
contracted via a blood transfusion in infancy. |
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Australia:
Drug firms fund Hep. C Awareness
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Pharmaceutical
companies are pouring millions of dollars into patient
advocacy groups and medical organizations to help expand
markets for their products.
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Countries
struggle with Hepatitis C contamination
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Examines how France,
Germany, Australia, the United States and Great Britain are
tackling hepatitis C contamination through blood and blood
products
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Crown
speeds up process in blood scandal
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OTTAWA - In a rare move, the
criminal proceedings against those charged in Canada's
tainted-blood scandal have suddenly been put on a fast track.
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David Marks -
Hepatitis C - Treatments and Beyond |
Marks, who
was forced to leave the Beach Boys once again due to his
battles with Hepatitis C, has founded a grass roots
foundation called Artists Against Hepatitis, which is
dedicated to providing services to the children of those
suffering from Hepatitis. David Marks is also the National
spokesman for the Hepatitis C Action Movement and
participates in fundraising events. Along with the Hepatitis
C Action Movement, David has been involved in lobbying
members of Congress and elected officials on behalf of
Hepatitis C related issues. |
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EDITORIAL
: Hepatitis C victims sue
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A group of people infected with hepatitis C
virus from treatment with virus-tainted blood products-typically
during childbirth or through transfusions during surgery-have
filed damage suits in Tokyo and Osaka district courts against
the central government and three pharmaceuticals companies
that distributed the blood products
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Hepatitis C Virus
advocate seen as Satan
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Recently, I was declared
Satan by a local area church.
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Hepatitis C Virus
Epidemic Control and Prevention Act
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To amend
the Public Health Service Act to establish, promote, and
support a comprehensive prevention, research, and medical
management referral program for hepatitis C virus infection,
to include the following:
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Hepatitis
C and Police Work
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Police officers have also
been known to use physical force to restrain and/or arrest. It
is common to come in to contact with blood and bodily fluids,
either through direct contact with individuals or through
gathering evidence in the course of an investigation
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Hidden
Epidemic, Researchers, Policymakers Debate Tactics in Battle
Against
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"If we don't start treating this population,
the epidemic is only going to get worse," said Seal, a University
of California at San Francisco researcher who will speak at
a four-day conference on hepatitis C that begins at San Francisco's
Holiday Inn today.
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Interview
with David Crosby and Hepatitis C Virus
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The following conversation took place on December
5th, 2001 between David Crosby, David Maxwell & Eileen
Lavalliere in Boston.
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Latest Press
Releases
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Series of press releases with links
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Madison
Ave. has Growing Role in Drug Research
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Article on how Madison Avenue, whose television
ads have helped turn some prescription drugs into billion-dollar
products, is expanding role in drug development; latest example
is pain drug Bextra, sales of which soared sixty percent in
three months after American Dental Assn journal published
study showing it offered relief after dental surgery; federal
regulators had rejected that conclusion six months earlier
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MORE PEOPLE
MAY BE AT RISK FOR Hepatitis C Virus THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT , By: Key,
Sandra W
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Recent media attention to the hepatitis C epidemic
may have given Americans a false sense of security that the
disease is one of intravenous drug users and sexually promiscuous
people only, according to Stephen P. Longello, Hepatitis C
Foundation.
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Needle
Stick Risk
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Hundreds of medical workers become infected
with the AIDS or hepatitis viruses from accidental punctures
each year.
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Newspaper credited with Hepatitis C Virus regulations
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Physicians throughout New York City will be
required to report hepatitis C to the New York City Health
Dept. for the first time because of a campaign conducted by
The Queens Courier over the past few months, it was announced
last week at a Queens medical conference.
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Prescription
drug sales Increased in the US
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Retail prescription drug spending in the US
increased for the fifth straight year in 2000, primarily reflecting
higher sales of a relatively small number of drugs.
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Press Releases for Infectious Diseases
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Articles on infectious diseases
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Prison
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Hepatitis C, a silent killer that attacks the
liver, is rampant among the almost two million inmates of
U.S.
prisons and jails but authorities are making only halfhearted
efforts to combat it, medical and prison experts say
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Promoting health, reducing stigma closing the inequality gap
in access to primary health care for women living with
hepatitis
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One of the major challenges
facing women diagnosed with hepatitis C is overcoming the
stigma attached to this illness which frequently acts as a
barrier to appropriate and timely primary health care.
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Researchers
fear ultimate toll of hepatitis C may surpass AIDS
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The virus that nearly killed
Kolling is hepatitis C, which is thought to have infected 170
million people around the world, including 3.9 million
Americans. The major cause of liver transplants, chronic
infection with hepatitis C can lead to cirrhosis, liver
failure, liver cancer and death.
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The New
Epidemic
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Tonight we look at a disturbing question: did
a hospital mistake put a nurse and her patients at risk? Chief
investigative correspondent Sarah Wallace joins us with a
disturbing case that is focusing new attention on a dangerous
disease that may be the new epidemic.
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Victims
tell of tears, pain from hepatitis
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Wallace is one of 65 people
infected with hepatitis C because a nurse anesthetist reused
needles and syringes at a pain management clinic at Norman
Regional Hospital and two Oklahoma City clinics between May
1999 and August 2002.
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"Unless we do something about [HEP-C] soon, it will kill
more people than AIDS"--Everett Koop
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Hepatitis C is a life-threatening, blood borne
disease of the liver. It is caused by a virus, and is far
more easily transmitted than HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
It is suspected that there are, at present, more than 4.5
million people in the United States that are infected with
hepatitis C, and more than 200 million around the world -
far more people than are infected with HIV. Hepatitis C is
rapidly becoming a global epidemic, and this makes hepatitis
C one of the greatest public health threats faced in this
century, and perhaps one of the greatest threats to be faced
in the next century.
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