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An English Physician (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
This happened in Muscat, in 'Oman. He was a student in the university. He had just returned from his native village to the campus after a vacation. He was referred urgently because he had developed jaundice. He told me he had felt hot and unwell for maybe 10 days. He had diarrhoea, not severe. He had rather vague abdominal discomfort. He had noticed his eyes were yellow the previous evening; today...
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Medindia Health News (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
US lawmakers led by Asian Americans on Monday pushed to ramp up spending to fight hepatitis B and C, warning that the di
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The nucleoside analogue entecavir (Baraclude, Bristol-Myers Squibb) achieves a high response rate and progressive decline in liver stiffness in patients with chronic hepatitis B, according to results from the first study in 'real-life' clinical practice reported at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (31 October - 3 November, 2009).
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
ChinaBio Today submits: Sinovac Biotech Ltd. ( SVA ) will move the home for its stock listing from the NYSE Amex to the NASDAQ Global Market. The reason given for the change was “greater liquidity.” Target day for the transfer is November 16. Although most NASDAQ companies use a four-letter symbol, Sinovac will be allowed to keep its current three-letter identifier, SVA, so the new listing...
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Medindia Health News (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Contrary to popular opinion, hepatitis B doesn't appear to increase the risk of developing pancreatic cancer, say re
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Wish I'd asked my Gran (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
ante-natal classes don't prepare you for the challenges that parents face in the 21st century. J1 needs to have inoculations for almost every conceivable disease before he heads to Burundi next year, so we've visited our practice nurse to start the process: we begin with hepatitis B next week. He also has to have jags for malaria, yellow fever, typhoid, rabies & cholera. All of a sudden this trip...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) today announced 48-week data from an ongoing study (ETV-048) of chronic hepatitis B patients with decompensated cirrhosis, in which BARACLUDE demonstrated greater viral suppression compared to adefovir. The new BARACLUDE data were presented today at the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.
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Health - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The hepatitis B vaccine - given to protect against infection by a virus that can cause severe liver damage and cancer - may protect for more than two decades....
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France24 (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
US lawmakers led by Asian Americans on Monday pushed to ramp up spending to fight hepatitis B and C, warning that the disease is causing a long-term burden for the costly US health care system. Hepatitis B and C are liver diseases commonly spread by blood that can lead to early death if untreated. Hepatatis disproportionately affects Asian Americans, in part due to its prevalence in parts of East...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
NEW DELHI: The government will introduce Hib (Haemophilus influenza type b) pentavalent (five-in-one) vaccine in the routine immunisation programme from next year. It will replace the DPT and Hepatitis ‘B’ vaccines. ...
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The hepatitis B vaccine - given to protect against infection by a virus that can cause severe liver damage and cancer - may protect for more than two decades, according to a new study.
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
NEW DELHI: The government will introduce Hib (Haemophilus influenza type b) pentavalent (five-in-one) vaccine in the routine immunisation programme from next year. It will replace the DPT and Hepatitis ‘B’ vaccines. ...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Will replace DPT and Hepatitis ‘B’ vaccines; pneumonia biggest killer of children
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The Muqata (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Special Guest Topic from Mrs. Jameela @ The Muqata Conventional Wisdom states to give babies Tylenol/acetaminophen after vaccinations to reduce side effects and lower a resulting fever. Yet a new study reported states that giving Tylenol to reduce the side effects after a vaccination lowers the effectiveness of the vaccination itself. "Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Children who get Tylenol and other...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
A Henry Ford Hospital study found that hepatitis B does not increase the risk for pancreatic cancer – and that only age is a contributing factor.The results contradict a previous study in 2008 that suggested a link between pancreatic cancer and previous hepatitis B infection.
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aarkstore | 10/29/2009
Hepatitis B Therapy Area Pipeline Report contains detailed information on the hepatitis b drug pipeline. This report provides insight into the pipeline status of hepatitis b drugs by company and by stage as well as a summary of the latest news and developments in this area. Scope of the report: Therapy Area Pipeline Report provides the user with real detail on drug pipelines, by company and by stage,...
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aarkstore | 10/21/2009
The Hepatitis B Disease and Therapy Review provides incidence and prevalence numbers and percentages for major countries worldwide, information on diagnosis, and an overview of treatments. Dosing information is provided for Intron A, lamivudine, Hepsera, and Baraclude. General information is included on sales of Hepsera. Disease and Therapy Reviews were developed to provide a basic understanding of...
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aarkstore | 09/30/2009
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), six infectious diseases—pneumonia, tuberculosis, diarrhoeal diseases, malaria, measles and HIV/AIDS—account for half of all premature deaths worldwide, killing mostly children and young adults. What’s more, threatening pandemics such as swine flu (H1N1 influenza A virus) are adding significant pressure to already strained healthcare budgets of governments...
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