ORIGINAL RESEARCH articleFront. Public Health, 22 January 2025Sec. Children and HealthVolume 12 - 2024 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1504678Farihah Malik1*†Philippa Easterbrook2Giuseppe Indolfi3,4Claire Thorne11UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom2Department of Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programmes, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland3Meyer Children’s Hospital IRCCS, Florence, Italy4Department ..read more

​By Elizabeth Pratt | Fact-checked by Barbara Bekiesz | Published December 19, 2024MDLinxIndustry Buzz“It is said that medicine is a combination of art and science. [It’s] based on science, but the application of the science for the benefit of the patient, well, that's an art.” — William Schaffner, MD“They don’t want to interrupt your sleep or private time—they would much rather be in bed themselves. [Re ..read more

Content From: HIV.gov•Published:December 17, 2024 Summary: In a message to the substance use treatment and public health communities, CDC and SAMHSA leaders highlight the need for and opportunities to increase the provision of HIV and viral hepatitis testing as a part of substance use disorder treatment services.In a new joint letter, the leaders of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA ..read more

12 December 2024By Sorcha Daly, Rebecca Bulmer, Vincent Condron, Gary Hind and Matthew SmithHepatitis C (HCV) is a blood-borne virus that is most commonly acquired by people who inject drugs. If left untreated, HCV can cause cirrhosis of the liver, liver failure and liver cancer. Unfortunately, due to its most common transmission routes (the sharing of unsterile injecting equipment), hepatitis C is also a stigmatised disease. As such, people who use drugs with a HCV diagnosis face multi-layered ..read more

​The United States is still in the throes of this devastating emergency. So why has all discussion of it faded from the campaign?Years after it was declared a public health emergency, the overdose crisis continues to impact the nation in profoundly tragic ways.  ..read more

By  CARLA K. JOHNSONUpdated 9:17 AM EDT, September 20, 2024 AP NEWSThe first big update to U.S. methadone regulations in 20 years is poised to expand access to the life-saving drug starting next month, but experts say the addiction treatment changes could fall flat if state governments and methadone clinics fail to act.For decades, strict rules required most methadone patients to line up at special clinics every morning to sip their daily dose of the liquid medicine while bei ..read more

Published July 18, 2024 | Originally published on MedicalXpress Breaking News-and-Events A new study has identified the top reasons why some physicians may be reluctant to intervene in addiction. The comprehensive review, pulling 283 studies published on this topic within the last 61 years, showed that "institutional environment" was the reason most frequently reported in these studies. "Institutional environment" refers to factors like lack of support from a physician's institution or employer; insufficient resources, such as staff and training; challenges in organization ..read more

By Sara Lorenz Taki and Lipi Roy July 16, 2024 Hepatitis C and opioid use disorder are both chronic but treatable conditions. Yet many Americans living with this deadly combination aren’t offered treatment. Imagine going to your doctor with strep throat and instead of being prescribed an antibiotic you are told it isn’t urgent and you can wait to treat it. A solution is within reach: It starts with recognizing the power of integrating hepatitis C treatment with addiction care. People with hepatitis C (HCV) and substance use disorders are often marginalized in traditional ..read more

New York aims for a 90% reduction in people living with HCV and an 80% increase in people being treated and cured by 2030. July 8, 2024 • By Laura Schmidt  hep ​New York state is ramping up efforts to eliminate hepatitis C by 2030 by increasing screening, treatment and more, according to Spectrum News. Hepatitis C (HCV) is a contagious but curable disease caused by a virus that infects the liver. HCV is a blood-borne virus that can cause lifelong infection, liver fibrosis, cirrhosis, liver cancer, liver failure and death. About 2.4 million Americans&n ..read more

Published July 9, 2024 | Originally published on ScienceAlert Latest, MD Linx More needs to be done to ensure that tattoo inks and other permanent makeup products are bacteria-free, according to the authors of a new study that found worryingly high numbers of commercial samples with bacteria in them. Testing found bacteria in about 35 percent of the tattoo inks and permanent makeup sampled in the US. That includes both aerobic bacteria that need oxygen to live, and anaerobic bacteria that don't – meaning they could survive in the dermal layer under the ..read more