Hepatitis

An Introduction
Hepatitis A to G : The Facts You Need to Know About All the Forms of This Dangerous Disease
by Alan Berkman, M.D., Nicholas Bakalar
On your right side, just above your intestines in front of your kidneys and under your rib cage beneath your lungs, lies the most complex organ in your body: your liver. In most adults, it weighs around three pounds, making it by a considerable margin you

The Five Faces of Hepatitis
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
How It Is Spread: By drinking water or eating food contaminated with fecal material that contains the virus. Symptoms: Flu-like symptoms such as fatigue, nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort, dark urine, and jaundice (yellowing of the skin and eyes).

Hepatitis C and Alcohol : Liver Cancer, Disease Progression
by National Institute of Health
An Italian survey showed that alcohol intake doubles the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in HCV-infected patients who drink 41 to 80 g of alcohol per day (between 3.4 and 6.7 drinks) and quadruples the risk for patients who drink

Autoimmune Hepatitis : Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment
by National Institute of Health
Autoimmune hepatitis is a disease in which the body's immune system attacks liver cells. This causes the liver to become inflamed (hepatitis). Researchers think a genetic factor may predispose some people to autoimmune diseases.

Hepatitis C: Treatment Side Effects
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The goal of treatment is sustained response - meaning that the virus is not measurable in the blood after drug therapy is completed. Those who continue to have measurable levels of the virus after treatment are considered non-responders.

Hepatitis B Vaccine Safe
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
According to the federal Centers for Disease Control, reported cases of acute hepatitis B continued to increase after the first vaccine was introduced in 1982 and reached a peak in 1985.

Multiple Sclerosis and the Hepatitis B Vaccine
by CDC
What is multiple sclerosis (MS)? Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease of the central nervous system characterized by the destruction of the myelin sheath surrounding neurons, resulting in the formation of plaques.

Hepatitis C: To Treat or Not to Treat, Diagnosis and Vaccination
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
'If we had a treatment that was safe, good, and not unpleasant, we should treat everybody,' says Seeff. Unfortunately, the length of treatment required, the low rate of success, and the current treatments' side effects - the severity

Hepatitis C and Alcohol
by National Institute of Health
Patients infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) who drink heavily are likely to suffer more severe liver injury, promoting disease progression to cirrhosis and increasing their risk for liver cancer.

Hepatitis C: An Individual Disease
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
In July 2001, the FDA approved two tests that do indicate if an infection is active. These similar tests, made by Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., of Pleasanton, Calif., are the Amplicor HCV Test, v2.0 and the Cobas Amplicor HCV Test, v2.0. Both are approve

Hepatitis C: Treating the Disease
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Doctors may prescribe Rebetron, a Schering product that combines interferon with the antiviral drug ribavirin. Approved last June for patients who have relapsed after interferon therapy and expanded in December to include patients never treated

Hepatitis C Health Risks and Effects
by Health Canada
Hepatitis C is an infectious virus that is carried in the blood and affects approximately 240,000 Canadians. The number of people with hepatitis C is increasing rapidly in Canada and around the world, primarily among those sharing needles and other drug

Hepatitis C
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
For some, the hepatitis C virus is deadly. But for many of the nearly 4 million Americans infected with the virus, it is not life-threatening. Only about 15 percent of those infected with HCV have a short-term infection that goes away by itself and never

Hepatitis A : Frequently Asked Questions
by CDC
Hepatitis A virus is spread from person to person by putting something in the mouth that has been contaminated with the stool of a person with hepatitis A. This type of transmission is called fecal-oral.

Hepatitis C: Treatments Helps Some
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
A new combination therapy is proving effective for some of the 4 million Americans infected with this blood-borne disease. FDA and other health agencies are trying to locate those who may unknowingly be carrying the disease because of transfusions

Hepatitis A Prevention Through Immunization
by CDC
Routine vaccination of children is an effective way to reduce hepatitis A incidence in the United States. Since licensure of hepatitis A vaccine during 1995 - 1996, the hepatitis A childhood immunization strategy has been implemented incrementally