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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicHepatitis C

Topic: hepatitis C

Opt-out program in UK identifies thousands with HIV, hepatitis B & C cases

The highest number of new diagnoses was for hepatitis B, which the UKHSA said reflects a greater prevalence of undiagnosed hepatitis B compared with hepatitis C and HIV.

India second highest in hepatitis B & C after China, says WHO report

Document reveals chronic hepatitis B infection accounts for 40 to 50 percent of a type of liver cancer and 20 to 30 percent of cirrhosis in India.

Pakistan has a new public health deadline. And it’s all about syringes

Pakistan has been beset with blood-borne infections like HIV-AIDS and Hepatitis B and C since the 1980s. But that could soon change.

Experimental hepatitis drug speeds up Covid recovery by 4 times, finds Toronto study

Researchers from the Toronto Centre for Liver Disease gave Covid-19 patients peginterferon-lambda, which is typically used in-vitro against hepatitis B and hepatitis C virus.

Science behind medicine and chemistry Nobels, and hepatitis C & its treatment in India

In episode 587 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta analyses the science behind the discovery of hepatitis C virus that won Nobel for Medicine, and CRISPR scissors that got Chemistry Nobel.

Why discovery of hepatitis C virus won its researchers a Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020 was awarded to three US and UK virologists for contributing to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.