White House budget includes ambitious push to eliminate hepatitis C
The Biden administration's fiscal year 2024 budget proposal, announced yesterday, aims to eliminate hepatitis C from the United States by creating a nationwide program to fight the disease. If funded by Congress, the 5-year, $11.3 billion program would expand testing, broaden access to powerful antiviral drugs, and boost awareness.
“I can’t really recall a circumstance quite like this, where we have the chance to do something this groundbreaking, so we just have to figure out how to make it work,” Francis Collins, acting science adviser to President Joe Biden and former head of the National Institutes of Health...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 11, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
CDC Recommends Universal Hepatitis B Screening of Adults CDC Recommends Universal Hepatitis B Screening of Adults
The previous risk-based testing approach was not successful at detecting most people living with chronic hepatitis B infection, the agency said.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Gastroenterology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Gastroenterology Headlines - March 10, 2023 Category: Gastroenterology Tags: Gastroenterology News Source Type: news
Hepatitis C, The Disease, Epidemiology, Treatment, Eradication Part 3: United States Epidemiology
In the third part of this series, we illustrate the scope of hepatitis C infections in the United States and highlight the inequities in disease burden across various groups of people. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - March 9, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: William A. Haseltine, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation business pharma & Source Type: news
Biden administration seeks billions to stop a killer: Hepatitis C
The Biden administration is seeking billions of dollars for a new push to wipe out hepatitis C, a virus that kills thousands of people annually in the U.S. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - March 9, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Emily Alpert Reyes Source Type: news
Screen All Adults for Hepatitis B, CDC Says
(MedPage Today) -- All adults should be tested for a hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection at least once in their lifetime, and a wider range should get periodic retesting, according to new CDC recommendations.
The report recommended moving from a... (Source: MedPage Today Gastroenterology)
Source: MedPage Today Gastroenterology - March 9, 2023 Category: Gastroenterology Source Type: news
