Hepatitis

Antiviral Treatment May Not Matter to Mother-Child HBV Transmission

Publish date: April 4, 2018

Recent National Institutes of Health (NIH) research proves administering tenofovir disoproxil fumarate before and after pregnancy has little...

Author:: Maggie Chartier, PsyD, MPH; Marissa M. Maier, MD; Timothy R Morgan, MD; Elliott Lowy, PhD; Lori Hoffman-Högg, MS; David Ross, MD, PhD, MBI; Lauren A. Beste, MD, MSc

Enhancing care of veterans infected with hepatitis B virus who are in VHA care includes providingclinical guidance, informatics tools, patient...

Publish date: March 27, 2018

MicroRNAs are associated with elevated liver enzymes and fibrosis in HIV, HCV infection.

Author:: Lisa Backus, MD, PhD; Christina Dickson, PharmD; Samuel Ho, MD; Erica Trimble, NP

Although the VA has been successful in screening, treating, and curing many veterans infected with hepatitis C virus, reaching young injection...

Publish date: March 21, 2018

HIV infection, but not HIV/HCV coinfection, associated with differential dialysis survival according to race.

Author:: Andrew M. Moon, MD, MPH; Elliott Lowy, PhD; Marissa M. Maier, MD; Maggie Chartier, PsyD, MPH; Timothy R. Morgan, MD; Lori Hoffman-Högg, MS; Lauren A. Beste, MD, MSc

Although widespread hepatitis A vaccination has dramatically decreased infection rates, a large proportion of VA patients in traditionally high-...