J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2008;23(6):844-855. Recent studies have tested whether treatment of CHC patients with ribavirin alone increases virus mutation rates. In a randomized, placebo-controlled ...

However, in this study, hemoglobin concentrations in patients with anemia decreased rapidly in the early stage after the start of administration of ribavirin. Hemoglobin concentrations in these ...

The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is believed to have infected approximately 170 million people worldwide (Fig. 1). Often referred to as the silent killer, patients can remain asymptomatic for decades ...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the major cause of liver disease worldwide and a potential source of high morbidity and mortality in the future. The World Health Organization estimates that ...

An Iowa resident is dead after contracting the rare Ebola-like disease Lassa fever. Here's everything you need to know about ...

Those people handling samples need to be careful in case they come into contact with it and become infected, Murphy said.

The middle-aged resident had returned to Iowa from West Africa early in October, Iowa public health officials said.

Lassa fever overview: symptoms, transmission, treatment, vaccine challenges, public health responses, and travel precautions ...

Lassa fever, a disease normally found in West Africa, killed an Iowan this week. The eastern Iowa resident had recently ...

A middle-aged patient has died from Lassa fever, according to an alert from a state health department. Here's what you need ...

The middle-aged Iowa resident had recently returned from travel to West Africa, where it is believed they contracted the ...

Recently, an eastern Iowa resident in the United States who had travelled to West Africa died after contracting Lassa fever, ...