Hepatitis

COVID patients treated with hepatitis drug FOUR times more likely to have cleared infection quickly

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Coronavirus patients treated with a experimental hepatitis drug were FOUR times more likely to have cleared the infection within seven days, study finds Peginterferon-lambda is a man-made form of a naturally occurring protein that calls for immune cells to attack a virus and is mainly used to treat hepatitis Receptors for the drug are found … Read more

Nobel Prize for medicine is awarded to two Americans and a British scientist: Hepatitis C

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Three scientists – including one Briton – who discovered the hepatitis C virus have won the 2020 Nobel Prize for medicine. The winners of the coveted award are Michael Houghton, a virologist at the Li Ka Shing Centre for Health in Cambridge, and Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice. The Nobel committee said the trio’s finds … Read more