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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....

Iron & Hepatitis C

Iron Loading & Disease Surveillance

Effect of blood letting on serum aminotransferase

levels of patients with chronic hepatitis C

and iron overload.

Controlled trial of the effect of iron depletion on long-term

response to alpha-interferon in patients with chronic hepatitis C

The advantage of gastrectomized patients in

management of their chronic hepatitis C

Effect of iron depletion on long-term response

to interferon-alpha in patients with chronic hepatitis C

who previously did not respond to interferon therapy

Therapy of hepatitis C: other options

Retreatment of hepatitis C interferon non-responders with

larger doses of interferon with and without phlebotomy

Iron stores, response to alpha-interferon therapy,

and effects of iron depletion in chronic hepatitis C

Mutations in the Hemochromatosis Gene,

Porphyria Cutanea Tarda, and Iron Overload

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