Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Only about 60% of people with a positive hepatitis C antibody test received a follow-up RNA test during the ...

Cepheid announced that its quantitative hepatitis C virus infection viral load test, Xpert HCV Viral Load, has achieved CE-IVD status under the European Directive on In Vitro Diagnostic Medical ...

WHO acceptance of the test comes at a time when direct acting antivirals, new and highly effective medicines for HCV, are becoming increasingly affordable and available in low- and middle-income ...

HCV antibody testing is sensitive and inexpensive. Anti-HCV screening assays include the enzyme immunoassay (EIA) or the enhanced chemiluminescence immunoassay (CIA). Positive results are reportable ...

April 24, 2009 (Paris, France) — Someone awaiting heart transplantation who is fitted with a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) may be at increased risk of falsely testing positive for hepatitis C ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Hepatitis C has been called the disease of the baby boomers. Not that others are not at risk, but baby boomers may have been exposed before we knew much about hepatitis C. There ...

In two separate moves, the FDA has approved the first assay to detect both antigen and antibodies to HIV and the first rapid blood test for hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibodies. The Architect HIV Ag/Ab ...

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2014;63(14):309-311. A majority (70%) of the HCV infections detected during this program were active, viremic infections. This finding, coupled with ...

A cost-effective one-step test that screens, detects and confirms hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections has been developed by researchers. Current blood-based HCV testing requires two steps and can be ...

America’s opioid epidemic continues to take lives at a staggering rate. According to preliminary estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), drug overdoses killed about 72,000 ...

Boston Medical Center has shown that testing for the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) outside the typical high-risk population can be successfully implemented in an emergency department setting, resulting in ...