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Hepatitis B Vaccinated Children Not At Increased Risk Of MS
The majority of children vaccinated against hepatitis B are not at an increased risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS). The study based in France involved 349 children with MS and 2,941 children without the disease. The children were all under the

Drug Watch: Agents in late-stage development for the treatment of hepatitis B and C virus infections (October 2008) (PDF)
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Biolex Therapeutics Completes $60 Million Series D Financing To Accelerate Development Of Locteron In Hepatitis C
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Medical Device Boasts Encouraging Data for Hepatitis C Treatment
A medical device designed to clear viruses and immunosuppressive proteins from the blood reduced Hepatitis C viral load for several people on dialysis. Further case studies will determine if the Aethlon Hemopurifier® can induce a rapid virological response against Hepatitis...

Hepatitis C Study Increases Interest in SCV-07
Trial results show SciClone's SCV-07 effectively reduces Hepatitis C viral load in previous non-responders with genotype 1. Based on these encouraging results, a follow-up study to evaluate SCV-07's potential to replace or improve the current Hepatitis C standard treatment will...

New Hope for HCV
Funded by Pfizer, Tacere's licensed RNAi technology could change the way Hepatitis C is treated. A mechanism that inhibits genes from transferring information and creating new genetic material, RNAi-based drugs may be able to silence the genes that cause disease....
Neurovisual Impairment: A Frequent Complication of Alpha-Interferon Treatment in Chronic Viral Hepatitis

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Fig. 3. Visual field sensitivity in patients with normal baseline visual evoked responses who developed abnormally prolonged P100 latencies at the end of interferon therapy (inner line), contrasted with those who did not (outer line). Recordings represent average values of all involved eyes. Visual sensitivity was significantly suppressed in the former group of patients

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