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GEN News Highlights: Oct 17, 2011
Roche is to buy hepatitis C therapeutics firm Anadys Pharmaceuticals in a cash deal worth a total of $230 million. Roche says it will immediately initiate a tender offer to buy all the outstanding shares of Anadys’ common stock at $3.70 per share, which represents a 256% premium to the latter’s closing price as the markets closed before the weekend. Anadys’ directors and management have already agreed to tender their shares, which amount to about 7.9% of the firm.
By KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press – Wed Jan 19, 4:31 pm ET
DENVER – Some Colorado lawmakers say their state should be the first one where people become organ donors by default, even though other states' efforts have been halted by worries about making such a personal decision automatic.
By Kelly Luker
There could be worse things than having a chronic, life-threatening, stigmatizing virus. No, really.
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Boxer Joe Frazier Dies from Liver Cancer
(PHILADELPHIA) — He beat Muhammad Ali in the Fight of the Century, battled him nearly to the death in the Thrilla in Manila. Then Joe Frazier spent the rest of his life trying to fight his way out of Ali's shadow. That was one fight Frazier could never win.By AP / DAN GELSTON AND TIM DAHLBERG Monday, Nov. 07, 2011
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When Gregg Allman asked his doctors for permission to start touring again just a few months after a liver transplant, he got quizzical looks. "They said, 'Well, we're going to give you a pass and sign you out — but are you crazy?'" Allman said. "I actually think that it had to do in the big step in healing up that happened after I went on the road." The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member, who this week releases "Low Country Blues," his first solo recording in 14 years, has experienced the healing power of music firsthand. Allman had his transplant on June 23 after hepatitis and the rock-star life left him in a state of deteriorating health. He knew the operation and recovery would be challenging, but he found it far more painful than he imagined it would be.
By CHRIS TALBOTT, AP Entertainment Writer – Wed Jan 19, 9:35 am ET, NASHVILLE, Tenn.
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During HCV Treatment: lower levels of ribavirin found in African American patients than non-African American Pharmacy Student's Drug Model Could Mean Better Outcomes for Hepatitis C Patients.
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy researchers have developed a mathematical model for choosing an appropriate dosage of the hepatitis medications for individual patients. The work helps explain why African American patients tend to not respond as well to the drugs as other patients. For the work, student researcher Runyan Jin, MD, PhD, won the best student research award and a $1,000 prize for her work at the 2010 American College of Clinical Pharmacology (ACCP) scientific meeting. Her project involved analyzing 900 blood samples from 400 patients enrolled in a multi-center trial to determine why hepatitis therapy works for some patients, but not others.
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Where would you start if you were charged with keeping the nation healthy? Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has chosen six priorities — winnable battles, he calls them.
They are smoking, AIDS, obesity/nutrition, teen pregnancy, auto injuries and health care infections. These are long-standing, major challenges that get a lot of attention already.
By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer - ATLANTA
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The transplant hepatology fellowship at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City offers year-long advanced clinical training to applicants who have already completed a gastroenterology fellowship.
Mount Sinai's transplant hepatology fellowship was the first to be ACGME-approved in the Northeast and remains the largest such fellowship in the United States.
The program was reaccredited in 2010 by ACGME for the maximum five-and-a-half years.
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(CBS) You may know Natalie Cole as a gorgeous, Grammy-winning singer, but as she reveals in her gripping new memoir, she's also a former junkie and double organ transplant recipient.
In her twenties, Cole was addicted to heroin. Then she got clean and sober. Twenty-five years later, in early 2008, she discovered she had hepatitis C.
"Hep C" is a life-threatening liver disease that's spread through contact with infected blood during sex, through sharing needles, and from mother to baby during childbirth. There is no vaccine.
Cole's doctor suggested that she may have caught the virus when she was sharing needles during her wild days in New York, and that it had remained dormant in her body for over two decades.
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Steve Jobs' Reported Liver Transplant Stirs DebateBy LAUREN COX, ABC News Medical Unit, June 23, 2009: Reports that Apple CEO Steve Jobs traveled to an unidentified hospital in Tennessee for a liver transplant this March have sparked a debate over whether the wealthy are able to use their resources to game the national organ donation system.
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Sopranos' Denise Borino-Quinn Died Of Liver Cancer At 46Posted on October 31st, 2010, Rita Pereira: Actress Denise Borino-Quinn, who played Johnny Sack’s wife Ginny Sacramoni in HBO’s hit show “The Sopranos”, has died after a long battle against liver cancer at the Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey on Wednesday (October 27).
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Infergen Gives Hepatitis C Patients An Extra ChanceAug 11, 2010 (WUSA) - Approximately 50 percent of chronic hepatitis C patients do not respond to their initial course of therapy, according to Bruce R. Bacon M.D. of Saint Louis University School of Medicine.
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Aethlon Medical Announces Expansion of HCV Treatment ProgramsSAN DIEGO, Aug. 18 PRNewswire-FirstCall - Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: AEMD), the pioneer in developing therapeutic filtration devices to address . . .
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Pharmasset hepatitis C drug gets faster FDA reviewTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS August 12, 2010 | PRINCETON, N.J. Pharmasset Inc. said Thursday that regulators will give a faster review for PSI-7977, a drug intended to treat chronic hepatitis C infections.
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Experimental antiviral drug boceprevir doubles cure rateBy Alan Mozes, HealthDay MONDAY, Aug. 9 - The current two-drug standard treatment for the potentially lethal hepatitis C could be rendered nearly twice as effective if doctors added in a third antiviral medication called boceprevir, new research suggests.
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Polish promoter: Emelianenko has hepatitis CThe co-owner of Polish promoter KSW says the rumors about heavyweight Aleksander Emelianenko's disease are true.
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Tattooing raiseshepatitis C risk
DoctorNDTV - Individuals with multiple tattoos that cover large parts of their bodies have a higher risk of catching hepatitis C and other blood-borne diseases. . .
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