Infectious Disease

This new quiz on hepatitis C tests what you know about mother-to-child transmission, testing at-risk populations, optimal regimens for your sickest patients, and more.

The recently-approved HCV treatment produced SVR rates of 95% or greater and discontinuation rates for AEs were  extremely low.

Black and Hispanic boomers had lower odds of HCV screening between 2013-2015, as did female and older members of the 1945-1965 cohort.

What’s swimming around in kids’ bath water-besides their rubber duckies? And why might it matter?

When to test, how long to treat, what adjustments to make to avoid dangerous drug interactions;  test your HCV IQ with a short quiz on a range of topics.

Urticarial wet plaque, smaller pink urticarial lesions on the temple and eyelid, eyelid edema, no vesicles or pain. What's your diagnosis?

Take our 5-question quiz to see what you know about these 2 vaccines, the similarities and differences, and how to accommodate both, for now.

A new study finds cases of acute HCV infection increasing on pace with the rise in numbers of opioid abusers who inject drugs. 

It's a short quiz but it covers a broad range of knowledge about testing, treatment, and drug choices in persons with HCV infection.

A community health model based on direct treatment via primary care epxanded detection and treatment of HCV and also increased life expectancy. 

Favorable results seen with sofosbuvir-containing regimens in these complex patients need to be tempered with the high potential for adverse drug interactions.

In this short quiz, we challenge you to choose 4 correct figures and 1 correct fact from your vast store of knowledge on HCV infection.

Read a concise review of a new real-world study that shows high efficacy for this all-oral combination against HCV GT2.

Highlights of 3 studies from 2017 that support the role of PCPs in HCV infection treatment, including prescribing direct-acting antiviral agents.

Clinical trials of second generation direct-acting antivirals in HCV show high cure rates. But do those rates reflect real life?

For PCPs, now poised to play a bigger role in screening and care for patients with HCV, we highlight 10 forces reshaping the HCV landscape.

Flu, shingles, HPV-test a bit of your knowledge on a range of vaccine-preventable diseases.

Injection drug users, pregnant women, men who have sex with men – who needs to be screened for HCV? Click here for the latest recommendations.

Are you up-to-date on HCV? Take this quick quiz and find out.

Here: a quick look at newly approved agents for primary care that will soon be coming your way.

World War I, genotype 3, 25% to 30%, 7 to 9 weeks-see what you know about the numbers related to HCV infection.

A new shingles vaccine could make Zostavax an immunization of the past. Take our short quiz on herpes zoster and shingles prevention.

Here, in plain language, a list of the most common questions you may hear about HCV and the answers, in brief.

Every patient encounter is an opportunity to screen for hepatitis C. Certain women of childbearing age must be included as an at-risk population.

Test your knowledge of the safety events that have occurred involving FDA-approved drugs since the turn of the century.