Hepatitis C Perspective

• The Alcohol Pandemic: Are We Ready for What's Next? Drinking and obesity are on the rise, creating a perfect storm for liver disorders in our patients.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, May 25, 2021
• DDW 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from DDW 2021
  Medscape Gastroenterology, May 19, 2021
• America's Forgotten History of Supervised Opioid Injection Facilities that would allow people to openly use opioids are igniting controversy today, but were once widespread.
  Undark, April 29, 2021
• Lessons Learned During COVID-19 Will Help Us Better Treat HCV In figuring out how to practice during a pandemic, we may have also learned new skills for monitoring and treating patients with HCV, says Dr William Balistreri.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, April 21, 2021
• New AASLD Guidelines Reconsider Bleeding Risk in Cirrhosis   Dr David Johnson comments on the paradigm-shifting implications of these guidelines on coagulation and bleeding in patients with cirrhosis.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, March 04, 2021
• The Likely Future of COVID-19? More Than Polio, Less Than Flu   Is the end goal in the fight against SARS-CoV-2 eradication of the virus or to have numbers similar to that of flu? Neither, says F. Perry Wilson.
  Medscape, March 03, 2021
• How Sjogren Syndrome Intersects With COVID-19 Physicians Robert Fox and Alan N. Baer discuss the latest research on Sjogren's, presented at the ACR Convergence virtual meeting.
  Medscape Rheumatology, December 24, 2020
• Physicians of the Year 2020: Best and Worst Physicians and other healthcare workers around the world worked tirelessly on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, and hundreds lost their lives as a result. However, with the good comes the bad.
  Medscape News Slideshows, December 18, 2020
• Liver Cancer Rates Are Rising; So Is Optimism Around Its Treatment Dr Nancy Reau shares the promising data leading her to believe that the trends around liver cancer can soon be reversed.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, November 20, 2020
• Vanquishing Hepatitis C: A Remarkable Success Story A look back at one of the singular achievements in medical research of the past 25 years, and what improvements are still to come.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, November 17, 2020
• AASLD 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from AASLD 2020
  Medscape Gastroenterology, November 13, 2020
• ACG 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from ACG 2020
  Medscape Gastroenterology, October 22, 2020
• Obeticholic Acid for NASH: Revolution or Just a Ripple? With FDA approval likely by year's end, Drs Jason Kramer and Nancy Reau consider what obeticholic acid may mean for this increasingly prevalent disease.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, July 10, 2020
• DDW 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from DDW 2020
  Medscape Gastroenterology, May 08, 2020
• ILC 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from ILC 2020
  Medscape Gastroenterology, May 04, 2020
• The Promise of Remdesivir for COVID-19 Treatment   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with Dr Stuart Cohen about remdesivir for the possible treatment of COVID-19 infection, and when we might expect to see the development of a vaccine.
  WebMD, April 30, 2020
• The Time to Eradicate Hepatitis C Is Now Dr William Balistreri says new guidelines recommending expansive screening may be daunting, but they are absolutely crucial if we want to progress further.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, March 17, 2020
• Opioid Use Disorder: Treatment Guide for Nonspecialists It may be impossible to rein in the epidemic of opioid use disorder in the United States unless primary care and other nonspecialists help manage it.
  Medscape Family Medicine, February 28, 2020
• Hepatocellular Carcinoma: 5 Things to Know Get up to speed on the latest data surrounding the most common form of liver cancer.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, February 14, 2020
• GUILD 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from GUILD 2020
  Medscape Gastroenterology, February 10, 2020