At least 44 cases of Hepatitis C linked to an Australian Abortion

"Health authorities and police are investigating allegations a cluster of patients of Melbourne's Croydon Day Surgery became infected with hepatitis C when James Latham Peters worked as an anaesthetist at the clinic over an 18 month period in 2008 and 2009. The state's chief...

Health hazards of oils used in body-enhancement injections

New York residents are being warned of the danger that oils such as castor oil, silicone, petroleum jelly, mineral oil and cod liver oil used in body-enhancement injections hold. The injections are said to cause serious infections, nerve damage, respiratory and kidney...

In China, 64 get hepatitis from one blood donor

Around 64 people who received a blood transfusion at a hospital in the Giuzhou Province in southern China have been infected with hepatitis C due to the blood being contaminated. Authorities at the hospital say that the contaminated blood has been traced to a donor who had...

OxyMatrine Studies for Hepatitis C Treatment

Studies have been done, both with injectables, as well as oral doses.The rates of seroconversion for hcv infection average over 40% in a myriad of studies, starting in 1998, for both hepatitis B & C. Both injectables as well as oral doses were effective. Dose range in the...