Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cepheid announced that its quantitative hepatitis C virus infection viral load test, Xpert HCV Viral Load, has ...

April 24, 2009 (Paris, France) — Someone awaiting heart transplantation who is fitted with a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) may be at increased risk of falsely testing positive for hepatitis C ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For the first time, WHO has prequalified a rapid diagnostic test for hepatitis C virus infection, according to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a new rapid test that quickly detects hepatitis C. However, its use may ...

Only about 40% of perinatally exposed infants were tested for hepatitis C virus (HCV), and less than 30% of eligible children ...

WHO acceptance of the test comes at a time when direct acting antivirals, new and highly effective medicines for HCV, are becoming increasingly affordable and available in low- and middle-income ...

HCV Treatment in Prison Could Be Key Public Health Measure The lack of a hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA test for approximately one-half of persons newly reported as HCV infected suggests that testing and ...

This faster polymerase chain test (PCR) allows same-day diagnosis and prompt treatment for the people affected with liver disease. This expeditious assessment aims to prevent costly and ruinous ...

Medford-based Chembio Diagnostics and the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics are developing a rapid diagnostic test for hepatitis C virus. The foundation is working with three companies on HCV ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Hepatitis C has been called the disease of the baby boomers. Not that others are not at risk, but baby boomers may have been exposed before we knew much about hepatitis C. There ...