The Latest Breaking News from Hepatitis

Health on the Streets homeless program faces closure due to funding

Kamilaroi man Jason Trindall-Rynkowski would never have known he was sick if it wasn't for a unique health outreach program on the NSW Central Coast.

ABC News · Jun 29, 2022

The Daily Biotech Pulse: CHMP Backs AstraZeneca's Breast Cancer Therapies, Ipsen Buys Epizyme, FDA Holds For Nuvation Bio, Astellas Studies

Here's a roundup of top developments in the biotech space over the last 24 hours:

Benzinga · Jun 27, 2022

GSK Shares Encouraging Data From Chronic Hepatitis B Candidate

GSK plc (NYSE:GSK) announced promising interim results from the B-Clear phase 2b trial of bepirovirsen in people with chronic hepatitis B (CHB). The data showed that bepirovirsen reduced hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) levels and hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA after 24 weeks of treatment. In the group of 227 patients on standard…

Benzinga · Jun 27, 2022

Activist raised eyebrows at White House but also awareness of illness affect gay community

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — George Raya had a seat at the table of the historic 1977 White House meeting of the National Gay Task Force, the first time a president invited LGBTQ advocates to discuss the issues their community faced. The then-27-year-old came with an issue in mind: hepatitis.

Tribune News Service · Jun 21, 2022

Eleven more children struck with hepatitis across UK with one needing liver transplant

Experts have reassured parents the rise in liver inflammation cases in youngsters is not to do with the Covid vaccine as the majority are in under-fives who are too young for the jab

Daily Mirror · Jun 18, 2022

Mum's warning after losing dad to 'silent epidemic'

"People don’t understand the virus and many are unaware of how they can get it"

Liverpool Echo · Jun 18, 2022

Surge of hepatitis cases in children not linked to Covid-19 vaccine, say experts

UK Health Security Agency report reveals most patients affected are under-5s who have not had the jab

Wales Online · Jun 17, 2022

Bidding Tops $12.3 Mln for Warren Buffett Charity Lunch

Someone has bid more than $12.3 million at an online auction to win a final, private lunch with billionaire businessman Warren Buffett to benefit a charity that helps the poor, homeless and people battling substance abuse. The $12,345,678 bid from an unknown bidder in the auction, which ends on Friday…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jun 17, 2022

Hepatitis A Spreads in Northern Lebanon

Northern Lebanon is grappling with an outbreak of Hepatitis A, or jaundice, that has infected 174 people, according to official figures. The Health Ministry is probing the cause of the outbreak. The infections were first reported in the northern city of Tripoli, said local media, blaming the outbreak on polluted…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jun 14, 2022

Hepatitis A vaccination blitz begins as cases confirmed at Gold Coast's Arundel State School

A Gold Coast school will host a hepatitis A vaccination clinic this weekend after four of its students caught the viral infection.

ABC News · Jun 10, 2022