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Thursday, October 30, 2025
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

Russia’s super-missile test shows a new, expensive technological race—with dire outcomes

The test raises a question. Why have Russian nuclear strategists now invested in the Burevestnik, when the US abandoned nuclear ramjet propulsion in 1964?

Karnataka, Telangana, TN, Maharashtra power 40% of services output, pan-India growth uneven—NITI Aayog

Report on India's services sector examines state-level dynamics, maps disparities and suggests ways to tap into the sector’s potential.

India pulled out of Tajikistan’s strategically important Ayni air base in 2022. Here’s why

Tajikistan did not want to extend the lease because of apparent pressure from Russia & China over non-regional military personnel at the air base, it is learnt.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.