| 1998 |
Jan. |
Doctors to face disciplinary action over Irish hepatitis C
scandal
- Doug Payne |
|
Jan. |
Several
assays show hepatitis B positivity soon after vaccination
- B C Dow, Acting director, H Munro,
Medical laboratory scientific officer 2, D Frame, Associate
specialist, P Yates, Consultant |
|
Feb. |
Integration
of hepatitis B vaccination into national immunisation programmes
- W J Edmunds, Wellcome Fund postdoctoral research
fellow M Kane, Medical officer, Global Programme for Vaccines and
Immunisation, P Van Damme, Researcher, A Meheus,
Professor |
|
Feb. |
Polymerase
chain reaction as marker of infectivity in people with hepatitis C
Sara Thomas, Research student, Andrew Hall, Reader
in communicable disease epidemiology, Marie-Louise Newell, Senior
lecturer in epidemiology, Gregory J Dore, Lecturer in
epidemiology, John M Kaldor, Professor of epidemiology, Geoffrey
W McCaughan, Clinical associate professor |
|
Apr. |
Canada's
hepatitis C compensation package greeted with anger
David Spurgeon, Quebec |
|
Apr. |
New combined
hepatitis A and B vaccine
Jane N Zuckerman, Head. Academic Unit of Travel
Medicine and Vaccines, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, George Kassianos,
General medical practitioner, Karl Birthistle, Assistant
director, clinical research and development/medical affairs. Alastair Benbow,
Medical director. Smithkline Beecham Pharmaceuticals |
|
May. |
Developed
countries could pay for hepatitis B vaccination in developing countries
- N J Gay, Principal scientist. W
J Edmunds, Research fellow. |
|
May. |
Incidence of
seroconversion to positivity for hepatitis C antibody in repeat blood donors in England,
1993-5
- K Soldan, clinical scientist, National Blood
Authority-PHLS CDSC, J A J Barbara, lead scientist in
microbiology, J Heptonstall, consultant
microbiologist. |
|
May. |
Spanish anaesthetist infects patients with hepatitis C
Xavier Bosch, Barcelona |
|
Aug. |
Behaviour of
hepatitis C virus
- Abi Berger, Science editor |
|
Aug. |
HIV and
hepatitis C among injecting drug users
- R A Coutinho, Director and professor of
epidemiology and control of infectious diseases Municipal Health Service, Amsterdam,
Netherlands |
|
Aug. |
Infection
with HIV and hepatitis C virus among injecting drug users in a prevention setting:
retrospective cohort study
- Editorial by Coutinho
- Ingrid van Beek, director, Robyn Dwyer,
research coordinator, Gregory J Dore, lecturer in
epidemiology, Kehui Luo, statistician, John
M Kaldor, deputy director, professor of epidemiology. |
|
Aug. |
Mother to
child transmission of hepatitis C virus: prospective study of risk factors and timing of
infection in children born to women seronegative for HIV
- 1Massimo Resti, specialist in gastroenterology, Chiara Azzari,
research paediatrician, Francesco Mannelli, specialist
in infectious disease, Maria Moriondo, research fellow,
Elio Novembre, paediatrician, Maurizio de
Martino, professor of paediatrics, Alberto Vierucci,
professor of paediatrics, Tuscany Study Group on Hepatitis C Virus
Infection in Children. |
|
Oct. |
Oral treatment for hepatitis B gets approval in United States
- Deborah Josefson, San Francisco |
|
Oct. |
Suspension
of hepatitis B vaccination condemned
- Alexander Dorozynski, Paris |
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