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While other cancer rates fall or remain static, liver cancer is on the rise. Here’s why we need to start paying attention.
The newer drugs for hepatitis C might mean fewer people are diagnosed with liver cancer.
A promising new immunotherapy to treat liver cancer has been discovered.
The annual surveillance report of sexually transmissible infections and blood borne viruses in Australia has found notifications of sexually transmissible infections are on the rise in Australia.
Developing brand new treatments and cures isn’t the only way to achieve a major reduction in cancer deaths worldwide.
Ghana must urgently implement strategies to tackle the high burden of viral hepatitis if it’s to fulfill global targets of eliminating the disease by 2030.
Combinations of two or three hepatitis C virus direct-acting antiviral drugs taken for 8-24 weeks can cure more than 90% of people treated.
Hepatitis A, B, C, D and E are very different viruses. Hepatitis A is genetically closer to the common cold than it is to hepatitis B. Hepatitis C is closer to the virus that causes dengue fever.
Worldwide, around 30 million people enter and leave prison each year. Of these people, around 4.5 million have hepatitis C, almost 1 million have HIV and 1.5 million have hepatitis B infections.
With use of drugs such as ice on the rise, drug consumption rooms are now being set up in Europe to provide supervised inhalation.
New drug combination cures over 95% of cases but the cost would swallow the entire health budget. Pity the politicians that have to figure this one out.
The latest instalment of Australia’s annual report card on HIV, hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections has been released this morning. Here’s what experts make of the results.
It’s twice as common as type 1 diabetes. It kills more Australians than HIV. One in every 100 of us lives with hepatitis C, but the disease receives little attention. Worldwide, around 150 million people…
Sexuality is a means of pleasure, fulfilment and intimate connection with other humans. But it can also be a source of anguish. So it’s perhaps no surprise that of all the areas in health care, the “STI…
A fall in condom use across the population is driving strong growth in sexually-transmitted infections, according to one of the authors of an annual surveillance report released today. Syphilis diagnoses…
A new, combination hepatitis C therapy could shorten treatment times, reduce side effects and improve health outcomes for people who also have HIV, early trial results show. Worldwide, around one-third…
US researchers have determined a potential marker to identify patients prone to hepatitis C relapse after antiviral therapy…
Hepatitis B and C kill more Australians than HIV/AIDS, according to an analysis of the 2010 Global Burden of Disease study…
Hepatitis C is a hidden epidemic affecting 170 million people worldwide. Hepatitis C kills nearly 700 Australians every year, mostly from chronic liver failure and liver cancer, and costs over $78.9 million…
Top contributors
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Infectious Diseases Physician, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney; Scientia Professor, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Professor of Viral Hepatitis, University of Glasgow
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Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW
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Professor, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, Gastroenterology & Hepatology Unit and Consultant Gastroenterologist & Hepatologist, University of Ibadan
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Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Deputy Director, Burnet Institute, Adjunct Professor, Monash University, Burnet Institute
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Emeritus Consultant, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst
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Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Program Head of Surveillance Evaluation and Research, UNSW
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Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan
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Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology, Curtin University and College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University
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Assistant Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University
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Medical Director, Viral Hepatitis Centre, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor and Executive Dean of School, Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University