Treatments for Hepatitis C

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Reviewed September 2007

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Title:   Medicinal herbs for hepatitis C virus infection
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Hepatitis C is an infectious disease of the liver caused by hepatitis C virus. Around 170 million people world-wide are chronically infected with this virus. The infection is associated with severe sequelae such as liver cirrhosis, liver cancer, or live...
Date:   Jul 2001
Title:   Interferon for acute hepatitis C
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Acute hepatitis C is rarely diagnosed because in most cases it is asymptomatic. Treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis C with interferon can achieve viral clearance and improve liver biochemistry and histology. In this review, treatment with inter...
Date:   Jul 2001
Title:   Glucocorticosteroids for viral hepatitis C
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   No evidence to support or refute glucocorticosteroids for viral hepatitis CAcute infection with viral hepatitis C manifests most commonly no symptoms, but frequently results in chronic infection. Chronic hepatitis C is in most cases benign, but may prog...
Date:   Dec 2003
Title:   Interferon for interferon nonresponding and relapsing patients with chronic hepatitis C
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Interferon leads to sustained clearance of the hepatitis C virus from the blood in less than 20 per cent of patients. In the remaining patients, nonresponders and relapsers, additional treatment options have been studied. This systematic Review shows th...
Date:   Aug 2002
Title:   Interferon for interferon naive patients with chronic hepatitis C
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Hepatitis C virus infection can progress to chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. The goal of this systematic review was to examine the effects of interferon treatment for interferon naive (previously untreated) patients with chron...
Date:   Feb 2002
Title:   Milk thistle for alcoholic and/or hepatitis B or C virus liver diseases
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   No evidence supporting or refuting milk thistle for alcoholic and/or hepatitis B or C virus liver diseasesMilk thistle (Silybum marianum (L) Gaertneri) extracts have been used as medical remedies since the time of ancient Greece. Alcohol and hepatotoxic...
Date:   Jan 2005
Title:   Bicyclol for chronic hepatitis C
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Evidence on beneficial or harmful effects of bicyclol for chronic hepatitis C is not found. Bicyclol is a novel synthetic 'anti-hepatitis' drug, used primarily in China for patients with chronic hepatitis C. Only one small, short-term randomised clinical ...
Date:   Nov 2006
Title:   Hepatitis C: an Australian snapshot
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Find out about all about hepatitis C and how it affects Australians.
Date:   May 2007
Title:   Hepatitis C treatment snapshot
Publisher:   Haemophilia Foundation Australia
Description:   In Australia there have been various versions of hepatitis C antiviral treatment, including interferon monotherapy in the early 1990s and combination interferon and ribavirin treatment which became available in the later 1990s.
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Hepatitis C infection
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Thousands of Australians have been found to be infected with hepatitis C since the virus was first discovered in 1989.
Date:   Apr 2005
Title:   Hepatitis C
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Hepatitis C is an inflammation of the liver, which may show up as an acute flu-like illness with fever and nausea.
Date:   Aug 2006
Title:   Managing hepatitis C in the community
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   Infection with hepatitis C can lead to chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis of the liver, however this progression is not inevitable. Health professionals need to consider who may be at risk of the disease as the infection can be asymptomatic.
Date:   Apr 2006
Title:   Needle-stick injuries in primary care
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   Needle-stick injuries in health-care workers are almost completely preventable by improving workplace practices, but when they do occur the consequences for the individual can be serious, regardless of the outcome in terms of infection.
Date:   Aug 2001
Title:   Hepatitis C treatment information combination therapy (Interferon and Ribavirin)
Publisher:   Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
Description:   Explains the treatments for hepatitis C and the possible side effects that may occur as a result of the treatment.
Date:   Jul 2002
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