<p>The number of lives lost due to viral hepatitis infections is increasing and already accounts for 3,500 deaths daily, according to this report by the World Health Organization (WHO).</p>
Currently, immunisation against hepatitis B requires injectable vaccines, with the first booster shot after one month, and the second after six months. Two years after researchers at the All India Institute
Treatment will be provided at 25 centres — 22 dist hospitals and three govt medical colleges In a major move, the Punjab Government has slashed the hepatitis-C testing rates by a whopping 50 per cent.
LUDHIANA: On the occasion of World Hepatitis Day on July 28, an awareness talk was organized by Dr Nirmaljit Singh Mallhi of SPS Hospital on Saturday, who said rapid changes in lifestyle — like eating
LUCKNOW: Over one crore Indians are carrying the hepatitis C virus infection, according to a review of some 300 studies on the prevalence of the disease in India. Undertaken by the department of gastroenterology,
LUDHIANA: The 90% of injecting drug users (IDU) are always at high risk of getting infected with Hepatitis C and even have chances of becoming HIV positive. The doctors treating the drug addicts at the
The liver is a vital organ that processes nutrients, filters blood and fights infections. ‘Hepatitis’ means inflammation of the liver. When the liver is inflamed, in due course it ends up in scarring
A lack of symptoms makes the diagnosis and treatment of this viral disease difficult. Improved awareness is the only recourse. Hepatitis C kills more people every year than malaria and tuberculosis,
ONGWEDIVA – Confirmed Hepatitis E cases in Omusati stand at 11 and not 10 cases as was recently reported. According to a report released by the Ministry of Health and Social Services, the number of suspected
THE hepatitis E outbreak which has claimed 14 lives in Windhoek has reached northern Namibia, and one person reportedly died on Friday at the Oshakati State Hospital. The unidentified woman was a resident
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its first 'essential diagnostics list', a catalogue of tests needed to diagnose the most common conditions as well as a number of global priority diseases.
