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Doctor indicted

Dr. Dipak Desai, who is at the center of a 2008 hepatitis C outbreak in ...

Australian police were Monday investigating whether women treated at an abortion clinic were deliberately infected with hepatitis C, as the number of cases linked to the centre rose to 22. Police said they were probing how patients at the Melbourne medical centre, which performs late-term abortions, contracted the disease, which is transmitted via blood and can develop into cirrhosis and ...

Federal health officials are warning consumers that the weight loss pill alli may cause severe liver damage in rare cases. The Food and Drug Administration says it has added a warning about the risk to the label of the drug, which is sold over-the-counter by GlaxoSmithKline. A prescription ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A closely watched experimental hepatitis C treatment being developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc led to a 75 percent cure rate in a pivotal late-stage trial of previously untreated patients, the company said on Tuesday. The results from the first Phase III study of telaprevir were roughly in line with expectations. Vertex shares, which have slumped recently, rose ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Male sex hormones may explain why men who suffer from the hepatitis B liver disease are more likely to develop liver cancer than women, researchers in Taiwan have found. In a paper published in Science Translational Medicine on Wednesday, the researchers said hepatitis B viruses attach themselves to receptors of the male sex hormone androgen before going ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and Baxter Healthcare Services on Friday were ordered to pay a combined $500 million in punitive damages to a Nevada man who contracted Hepatitis C during an outbreak two years ago. The Clark County District Court jury in Nevada ordered Teva to pay $356 million and Baxter to pay $144 million in the largest ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Amitabh Bachchan, one of India's top actors, whose disciplined, teetotaling life is somewhat rare in Bollywood, has said his liver has been partially destroyed by cirrhosis, requiring constant medical attention. The 67-year-old Bollywood star said the condition was caused through a blood transfusion following a near-fatal accident while shooting for a film in 1982. "I was therefore ...

Veteran Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan on Sunday sought to reassure fans about his health after revealing he was suffering from cirrhosis of the liver and needed regular medical check-ups. Bachchan, a 67-year-old teetotaller, said 25 percent of his liver had been destroyed by the condition, which he said was the long-term result of a blood transfusion after an accident when ...

Pfizer Inc. said Thursday it stopped a late-stage clinical study of its drug Sutent as a treatment for liver cancer. Pfizer said patients who were treated with Sutent were not surviving as long as patients who were treated with another drug, Bayer Healthcare ...

Whenever I use the bathroom at work, I put down one of those paper seats on top of the bowl. Is this actually protecting me from anything or is it just there for mental comforts? And what kinds of diseases or sickness can you actually catch from a toilet seat? — J. Kahn, Queens, New York I actually researched this question ...