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How I broke the infected blood scandal in the Mail - and we carried on exposing the appalling, deadly truth in the face of cowardly politicians and bullying by the medical and legal establishment
7 months ago

How I broke the infected blood scandal in the Mail - and we carried on exposing the appalling, deadly truth in the face of cowardly politicians and bullying by the medical and legal establishment

Daily Mail  

No story should start at the end. Sir Brian Langstaff’s careful four-year stewardship of the Infected Blood Inquiry has examined millions of pieces of evidence, pored over more than 3,500 written statements and listened to 370 witnesses — including me. It began 41 years ago when, as a young medical journalist, newly promoted on to The Mail on Sunday, I …

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Opinion: A deadly but curable disease is thriving in L.A.’s jails. That’s unacceptable
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: A deadly but curable disease is thriving in L.A.’s jails. That’s unacceptable

LA Times  

During my five years as a doctor in Los Angeles County’s jail system, I personally saw hundreds of patients with hepatitis C who were not being treated for the potentially deadly but curable disease. Hepatitis C is new enough to medical science that until the 1980s, it had yet to be formally identified and was known only as “non-A, non-B …

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Why L.A.’s battle against a deadly disease relies on unpaid volunteers
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Why L.A.’s battle against a deadly disease relies on unpaid volunteers

LA Times  

Dara Bruce makes calls from her Glendale apartment as part of a joint effort by USC and L.A. County’s Department of Public Health to try to reach people who have tested positive for hepatitis C. As evening fell in her Glendale apartment, Dara Bruce fed her pet rats George and Fred, poured herself a glass of water, and dialed a …

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Blood Cancer: Hepatitis B and C viruses can cause multiple myeloma, finds study
11 months ago

Blood Cancer: Hepatitis B and C viruses can cause multiple myeloma, finds study

India TV News  

According to a study that offers new hope for treating the deadly disease, multiple myeloma, one of the most common blood malignancies, can be brought on by the hepatitis B and C viruses. The discovery is based on a patient who, several years ago, shocked a group of Spanish experts by being cured of multiple myeloma following treatment for hepatitis …

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Fatty liver can be deadly; 5 ways to manage serious complications of NAFLD
1 year, 8 months ago

Fatty liver can be deadly; 5 ways to manage serious complications of NAFLD

Hindustan Times  

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease cases are on rise with growing cases of obesity and other chronic conditions like diabetes worldwide. WAYS TO MANAGE CHRONIC CASE OF NAFLD "Chronic and life-threatening cases of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease require medical attention and management to prevent further progression and complications. Weight loss can help reduce the amount of fat in the liver, improve …

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Like HIV and hepatitis, Covid cannot infect new born baby from mother: Experts
3 years, 6 months ago

Like HIV and hepatitis, Covid cannot infect new born baby from mother: Experts

India TV News  

Like HIV and hepatitis, Covid-19 cannot transmit to the new born babies even if the mother had tested positive for the deadly virus, as around 250 nCoV positive women were found to have delivered healthy babies in Tripura, doctors and experts said. Agartala Government Medical College's Microbiology department head Tapan Majumder said that it is a very positive development that …

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3 win Nobel medicine prize for discovering hepatitis C virus
4 years, 2 months ago

3 win Nobel medicine prize for discovering hepatitis C virus

Associated Press  

STOCKHOLM — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discovering the liver-ravaging hepatitis C virus, a breakthrough that led to cures for the deadly disease and tests to keep the scourge out of the blood supply. “For the first time in history, the disease can now be cured, raising hopes of eradicating hepatitis C virus from the …

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Nobel Prize in medicine goes to U.S., U.K. scientists who discovered hepatitis C virus
4 years, 2 months ago

Nobel Prize in medicine goes to U.S., U.K. scientists who discovered hepatitis C virus

LA Times  

Nobel Committee members Patrik Ernfors, left, and Gunilla Karlsson Hedestam sit in front of a screen displaying the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, American Harvey J. “For the first time in history, the disease can now be cured, raising hopes of eradicating hepatitis C virus from the world,” the Nobel Committee said in announcing the …

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