OBJECTIVES This study aimed to investigate the factors affecting the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC). METHODS This study is based on a descriptive survey and involved 125 gastroenterology outpatients visiting a university hospital in South Korea as the participants. HRQOL was assessed using the Liver Disease Quality of Life 1.0, which consiste...

This paper describes the redesign of health benefits at Covered California-the nation's largest health insurance exchange, which covers 1.3 million individuals, and its benefit designs extending to hundreds of thousands more enrollees through insurance products sold outside the exchange-with respect to specialty drugs for the 2016 enrollment year. The catalyst for benefit redesign came from adv...

Two antigen-antibody systems were Out of 42 sera from patients with acute viral hepatitis 33 were positive for HBsAg,all HBsAg positive individuals possessed anti-HBc. From 11 blood donors  sera 8 were positive for HBsAg and 9 were Positive for anti-HBc;2 leprosy sera were tested,both of them were positive for HBsAg and anti-HBc. 5 miscellaneous sam­ples,z·were positive for HBsAg and anti-HBc...

Background and Aims: Recently, a novel DNA virus was isolated from the serum of a patient with post-transfusion non A-G hepatitis and named TT virus. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence TT virus among cirrhotic patients due to hepatitis B & C in infection Ahwaz. Methods: The prevalence of TTV infection was studied in 41 patients with liver cirrhosis. TTV DNA was detected ...

I m Zi.£,aXC k<p xoaxam A LUNCHEON for Mrs. Carlyn H. Wohl (left) at Jewish Hospital was the setting for.this picture which was taken two weeks before the death of Milton Frank (seated right). Others in attendance were (standing from left) Edward B. Greensfelder, vice-president; David A. Gee, executive director; Dr. Stanford Wessler, physician-in-chief; Edward F. Schweich, vice-president; and J...