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MILFORD, Mass., Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Spring Bank Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative medicines for the treatment of viral infections, today announced it has closed on a $10.5 million Series A financing. Proceeds will be used to fund Phase I clinical development of SB 9200, a novel, orally available treatment for Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and to further the preclinical pipeline. The Company plans to conduct a Phase I safety and...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Yesterday (Feb 14) was a day of love for most people, celebrating that love by sending romantic cards, fragrant flowers and decadent chocolates to their significant others. But the day that so often ends up with lovers hitting the hay for a little after-hours, extra-curricular activity, may be more troublesome than what they had anticipated. This comes thanks to a new US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report...
LONDON, February 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Any drug company's stock price hinges on the performance of its drugs. One of the very first steps involved in marketing a drug is getting the approval of FDA. Dynavax Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: DVAX) is one such company that pointed out that the point recently. The stock plummeted when its drug candidate received poor reviews. However, the same Hepatitis B drug is now waiting for the final approval and the FDA's decision will...
The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO) received a 3-year grant totaling over $700,000 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop new Health Information Technology strategies that increase screening for chronic hepatitis B and reduce the impact of hepatitis B among high-risk Asian American and Pacific Islander populations. First study to evaluate health information technology strategies for low-income Asian American and Pacific Islander...
ALBANY, New York, January 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the latest market report published by Transparency Market Research (http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com) "Liver Diseases Therapeutics Market (Chemotherapy, Anti-Virals, Vaccines, Targeted Therapy and Immunosuppressants) - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Trends and Forecast, 2012 - 2018 [http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/liver-diseases-therapeutics.html ]", the global liver diseases...
LONDON, January 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- - Experts recommend comprehensive approach to combat global health issue - A new Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report titled The Silent Pandemic: Tackling Hepatitis C with Policy Innovation, made possible as a result of an educational grant from Janssen Pharmaceutica NV and published today, highlights the urgent need for countries around the world to develop strategies to tackle head-on the growing social and economic...
BURLINGTON, Mass., Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms focusing on pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that, from 2011 to 2021, growth in the hepatitis B virus (HBV) drug market will be driven by continued uptake of oral nucleoside/nucleotide analogues, such as Bristol-Myers Squibb's Baraclude (entecavir) and Gilead's Viread. However, the entry of generic Baraclude in 2015 and 2016 in the United States and...
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTCBB: AEMD), the pioneer in developing selective therapeutic filtration devices to address infectious disease, cancer and other life-threatening conditions, today announced the initiation of a compassionate-use clinical program to treat individuals infected with Hepatitis C virus (HCV). The compassionate-use program, which has been approved by the Institutional Review Board at the Medanta Medicity Institute (Medicity),...
BOSTON, MA, Nov. 10, 2012 /CNW/ - Merck announced interim results from a Phase II, multi-center, randomized, dose-ranging study (n=332) assessing the safety and antiviral activity of MK-5172, an investigational, once-daily, oral NS3/4A protease inhibitor for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1 infection in combination therapy in treatment-naïve patients. These data will be presented this week at The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases...
BLUE BELL, Pa., Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE MKT: INO) announced today that its synthetic hepatitis B (HBV) therapeutic vaccine generated strong T cell responses that eliminated targeted liver cells in mice. This data points to the DNA vaccine's potential to clear HBV infection and thereby prevent liver cancer in humans, an encouraging development given that nearly one-third of the world's population is infected with hepatitis B, with 400 million...
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Image Caption: This electron micrograph reveals the presence of hepatitis-B virus HBV "Dane particles", or virions. Credit: CDC/Wikipedia Hepatitis B: What Is It? Hepatitis simply means a swelling or inflammation of the liver. The type hepatitis that a person contracts (there are 5 common forms) affects their long-term prognosis. The most common and most severe of these different types of liver infection is Hepatitis B, which is caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). It is typically...
Hepatitis A, caused by hepatitis A virus, is an acute infectious disease of the liver that is transmitted person to person by ingestion of contaminated food or water or through direct contact with an infectious person. Millions of people are believed to become infected with HAV every year. The incubation period is two to six weeks and on average is 28 days. In less developed countries the HAV is usually contracted in early childhood. Clean water helps to decrease contraction of HAV. In 90%...
Hepatitis B virus, HBV, is a part of the Hepadnaviridae family of viruses. HBV can lead to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma and has been linked to pancreatic cancer. It is classified as a species of the Orthohepadnavirus. Similar viruses have been found worldwide in great apes and monkeys. There a few different genotypes and they all differ by at least 8% of the sequence and have distinct geographical distributions and this has been associated with anthropological history. Type A is...
Hepadnaviruses can cause liver infections in humans and animals. The two recognized genera are Genus Orthohepadnavirus and Genus Avihepadnavirus. It has a small genome of partially double-stranded, partially single stranded circular DNA. It is a group 7 virus that uses an RNA intermediate during replication. Most people who come into contact with the virus are able to clear the infection alone although some cannot and usually progress to fulminant hepatitis. It can cause sever liver...
