Infectious Disease

Patient Care talked with Dr Kwo about recent updates to hepatitis C management guidelines, challenges in expanding screening, and more.

HCV screening rates improved at one large clinic from 24% to over 90% and were sustained at 1 year. How? With this 6-step intervention.

The newest HCV guidance is out on special populations. Are you up to date? Take our short, 5-question quiz to find out. 

Was it the flu vaccine? The virus itself? An unforeseen combination of both? You'll find out with these 5 questions.

For patients infected with hepatitis C virus who do not respond to direct-acting antiviral agents, results of a new study could mean a much brighter future.

Two new international studies on HCV show elimination programs have high levels of engagement, treatment initiation, and cure rates. 

These 5 questions on HCV infection are a quick brush-up on disease basics and treatment.

HCV screening of baby boomers seen in a suburban emergency department found remarkably high seropositivity rates, say authors of a new study. 

The current study was one of the largest analyses to date of black participants receiving all-oral DAA treatment.

Rx Shorts: With 2 shingles vaccines available, questions continue to multiply. Take away 4 small pearls to help answer patient questions and maybe yours.

This new quiz on hepatitis C tests what you know about mother-to-child transmission, testing at-risk populations, optimal regimens for your sickest patients, and more.

The recently-approved HCV treatment produced SVR rates of 95% or greater and discontinuation rates for AEs were  extremely low.

Black and Hispanic boomers had lower odds of HCV screening between 2013-2015, as did female and older members of the 1945-1965 cohort.

What’s swimming around in kids’ bath water-besides their rubber duckies? And why might it matter?

When to test, how long to treat, what adjustments to make to avoid dangerous drug interactions;  test your HCV IQ with a short quiz on a range of topics.

Urticarial wet plaque, smaller pink urticarial lesions on the temple and eyelid, eyelid edema, no vesicles or pain. What's your diagnosis?

Take our 5-question quiz to see what you know about these 2 vaccines, the similarities and differences, and how to accommodate both, for now.

A new study finds cases of acute HCV infection increasing on pace with the rise in numbers of opioid abusers who inject drugs. 

It's a short quiz but it covers a broad range of knowledge about testing, treatment, and drug choices in persons with HCV infection.

A community health model based on direct treatment via primary care epxanded detection and treatment of HCV and also increased life expectancy. 

Favorable results seen with sofosbuvir-containing regimens in these complex patients need to be tempered with the high potential for adverse drug interactions.

In this short quiz, we challenge you to choose 4 correct figures and 1 correct fact from your vast store of knowledge on HCV infection.

Read a concise review of a new real-world study that shows high efficacy for this all-oral combination against HCV GT2.

Highlights of 3 studies from 2017 that support the role of PCPs in HCV infection treatment, including prescribing direct-acting antiviral agents.

Clinical trials of second generation direct-acting antivirals in HCV show high cure rates. But do those rates reflect real life?

For PCPs, now poised to play a bigger role in screening and care for patients with HCV, we highlight 10 forces reshaping the HCV landscape.

Flu, shingles, HPV-test a bit of your knowledge on a range of vaccine-preventable diseases.

Injection drug users, pregnant women, men who have sex with men – who needs to be screened for HCV? Click here for the latest recommendations.

Are you up-to-date on HCV? Take this quick quiz and find out.

Here: a quick look at newly approved agents for primary care that will soon be coming your way.