This method can ensure higher rates of cure for hepatitis C infection

Mass treatment of a population with chronic hepatitis C infection has produced high rates of cure, according to a study. The research, conducted in Punjab, evaluated the feasibility of decentralised care and the provision of free direct-acting antiviral agents (DAAs) among a population of almost 20,000 individuals. It validated the efficacy and safety of generic all-oral DAA regimens delivered using a decentralised algorithm-based public health model. “We have shown in our study that it is possible to cure more than 90% of individuals with HCV infection in a highly dispersed…

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Insulin, hepatitis B shots may get cheaper

Scientists at Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, have for the first time in India developed indigenous technology to produce protein-based medicines like insulin, streptokinase (clot buster) and the hepatitis B vaccine. They expect this to cut the cost of these medicines by 3-4 times. India is largely dependent on imported and patented technology (expression vector) for production of insulin, streptokinase and hepatitis B etc. The importance of IMTECH’s work can be gauged from the fact that India is No.2 in the world after China in diabetes and hepatitis B patients:…

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Hepatitis & HIV patients with infection at higher risk of suicide

Hepatitis & HIV patients with infection at higher risk of suicide (MarioGuti/Getty Images) People diagnosed with Hepatitis and HIV or AIDS have high chances of committing suicide after being hospitalised with infections like viral, according to a new study. The study, published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry investigated associations between infectious diseases and the risk of death by suicide. Researchers studied those aged 15 and above and the infections were divided into categories like bacterial, viral, others and infection type such as sepsis, hepatitis, genital, central nervous system, HIV or…

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‘Hepatitis C virus can manage liver cancer’ claims Mumbai based totally homeopath

Acity homeopath has published a look at in an international scientific magazine at the anti-most cancers impact of a brand new homeopathic medicinal drug prepared from Hepatitis Cvirus in a laboratory version. there is, at present, scepticism over the efficacy of homeopathy , with many international journals having known as it a “placebo” effect. “but the look at published in Elsevier’s journal of Integrative remedy shows that our Hepatitis C virus-primarily based medicinal drug effectively destroyed live most cancers cells wit hin a lab placing,” stated homeopath Rajesh Shah. The…

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