Friday, March 25, 2011

Hepatitis News;The liver - the body's powerhouse

The liver - the body's powerhouse

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It is the largest internal organ. It is responsible for balancing carbohydrates, proteins and lipids. Drugs are broken down to active forms. The liver stores sugar and packages up fat. Every cell contains 1,500 mitochondria. The liver is a major metabolic powerhouse. Liver cells are difficult to maintain outside the body. Yaakov Nahmias's lab is trying to mimic liver cell activity outside the body and has maintained cells outside the body for 2 months now. Liver cells allow us to study drug toxicity how fast drugs are broken down and optimal dosages.

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Doctor Under Investigation Launches 'Truth' Campaign

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LAS VEGAS -- Doctor Michael Kaplan is now telling his side of the story after more than 100 of his patients were told to get tested for HIV and hepatitis.

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One size doesn’t fit all: A life-saving guide to STD and HIV testing for gay guys

“I just got my full battery of STD tests,” my friend Dave recently told me.
My friends know that I’m a physician specializing in sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). So they sometimes ask me STD-related questions or, like Dave (not his real name), tell me they’ve been tested recently.
“Great!” I said to Dave, who’s gay. “What’d you get tested for?”
Pause.
“Um,” he said.
Longer pause.
Then: “Not sure. But they took some blood, and I peed in a cup.”
Unfortunately, that means that Dave, like many gay men, probably didn’t get the “full battery” of tests that he really needs. That’s too bad.
The need for testing...........

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Interactions of HIV Meds with HCV drugs Telaprevir and Boceprevir

SUMMARY: New HCV antiviral drugs can interact with some antiretroviral drugs for HIV, but others are not affected and HIV/HCV coinfected patients can be treated successfully with minimal dose adjustments.

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TAG Pipeline Report Outlines Future of Hepatitis C Treatment

SUMMARY: New report from Treatment Action Group (TAG) details experimental hepatitis C virus (HCV) therapies in development, including protease inhibitors boceprevir and telaprevir.

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New On The Blog

Hepatitis C;EASL Boceprevir A Highlight

Doctors surveyed found peg-IFN-alpha-2a/ribavirin as the Most Efficacious Therapy for Hepatitis C Virus

Hepatitis; PSI-938 and PSI-7977 Breaking Down The Media Frenzy

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