Hepatitis Weekly articles from December 27 1999

Hepatitis Weekly archives from December 27 1999

Ob-Gyns Recommend Expanded Testing for Diabetes, HIV, HCV.(Brief Article)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- African-American, Hispanic, and Native American women are at higher risk than other ethnic groups for diabetes and their routine medical screening should include a fasting glucose test every three years, says the...

Company Ends U.S. Development Program for Adefovir Dipivoxil.(Brief Article)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Gilead Sciences, Foster City, California, announced December 3, 1999, the termination of its U.S. HIV development program for the investigational agent adefovir dipivoxil 60 mg. This decision follows a U.S....

TTV Not Easily Spread In Utero.(Brief Article)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Intrauterine transmission of transfusion-associated virus (TTV) from mother to child is rare, a report from Italy suggests. Researcher Daniele Prati and colleagues from Milan's Hospital Maggiore found that...

Lamivudine May Be Useful Therapy.(Brief Article)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Lamivudine was shown to have an impact on transfusion-transmitted virus infection in a study from Spain. The report was presented by Rafael Barcena and colleagues at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American...

U.S. NIH Researchers Report on Engineered Vaccine Research.(Brief Article)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers from the U.S. National Institutes of Health are exploring efforts to improve engineered vaccines for HIV and hepatitis C virus. J.A. Berzofsky and colleagues report on several approaches to develop...

Obstetricians Should Test At-Risk Women for Hepatitis C.(Brief Article)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Selective testing for hepatitis C virus based on risk factors should be a part of prenatal care, according to a clinical commentary published in the December 1999 issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Most...

HAV 3AB Required for 3CD Interaction.(Brief Article)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in Italy report on the mapping of hepatitis A virus protein domains 3AB of the picornaviruses which interact with 3CD and viral RNA. The small hydrophobic protein 3AB of the picornaviruses,...

Truncated HBV RNA Indicates Chronic Hepatitis.(Brief Article)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Truncated hepatitis B virus RNA is a marker of chronic hepatitis infection but may or may not be a marker of liver cancer in older patients. RNA from tissue samples of 46 HBsAg seropositive hepatocellular...

Key Phase of Human Immune Response Seen.
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- The first detailed pictures of key immune system cells locked onto fragments of a foreign substance provide new clues about how the immune system identifies enemy threats and may even lead to a novel way of...

HCV Not Critical Factor in North India.(Brief Article)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Hepatitis C virus infection is not an important factor in sporadic fulminant viral hepatitis in North India. The role of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in fulminant hepatitis (FH) is poorly understood and...

Gene-Trapping Strategies May Aid Drug Research.(Brief Article)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Genome-wide gene-trapping strategies may prove to be valuable assays for drug research. "With sequence analysis of the human genome well underway, there is an increasingly urgent challenge to understand the...

Condition Not Associated with Hepatitis C or G.(chronic urticaria)(Brief Article)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- A study from France suggests that chronic urticaria is not linked to hepatitis C or G infection. Researcher B.J. Cribier and colleagues from Strasbourg's Hopitaux Universitaires studied the prevalence of...

Mutant Viruses Are Common in HBV Patients Given Lamivudine.(Brief Article)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- YMDD mutant viruses commonly emerge during long-term lamivudine treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis B virus. Lamivudine is an effective antiviral agent for the treatment of chronic type B hepatitis....

HBV Is Efficiently Spread Through Contact with Urine.
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Urine appears to be an efficient transmission medium for hepatitis B virus, a study from Sweden suggests. Horizontal transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV) without apparent sexual or parenteral exposure is...