Help for Hepatitis C

09/08/2017

FDA has approved Mavyret (glecaprevir and pibrentasvir) for the treatment of adults with chronic hepatitis C virus.

11/05/2017

From the VA

Cross posted from: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Editor’s Note: Reminder- an estimated 25% of people living with HIV are coinfected with hepatitis C. May is Hepatitis Awareness Month and VA has made great progress in testing, treating, and curing hepatitis C (Hep C) for Veterans enrolled in VA...

10/01/2016

A patient consultation with Dr. Misha Cohen. http://www.hepcchallenge.org http://www.docmisha.com http://www.helphepatitisc.com/blog

08/11/2015

Two Important Hepatitis C Rallies In San Francisco This Week!

Demand that Gilead reinstate medication coverage for all high risk patients to help end the hep C epidemic!
Urge physicians to be advocates for treating ALL with hepatitis C!

Outside Moscone Center West at Howard Street and 4th Street
Saturday, November 14th 4-5:30 PM

Outside Moscone Center West at Howard Street and 4th Street
Sunday, November 15th 2-3 PM

Help eliminate the Hep C epidemic!!!

16/10/2015

Doctors say up to 80 percent of patients are denied expensive but effective drugs like Harvoni October 16, 2015   5:00AM ET  by  Sony Salzman ​Amber Rojas was almost eight months pregnant when...

09/05/2015

Misha Ruth Cohen New Book Coming! http://conta.cc/1EYc88V

29/04/2015

Hepatitis C
Thanks to Elizabeth Raines for writing this book and blog on hepatitis C for baby boomers. I appreciate her mention of my work and Chicken Soup in her most recent blog as well.

I just spoke with an amazing woman from San Francisco. Misha Cohen is an acupuncturist and practitioner of Chinese Medicine. Misha studied acupuncture at Lincoln Hospital in New York City and went ...

22/11/2014

Study Gynecology Online with Dr. Misha Cohen http://conta.cc/1xDZJ7a

Endometriosis, defined by the presence and growth of uterine glands and stroma outside the uterine cavity, is one of the most common gynecological diseases, affecting at least 5.5 million women in North America.  It is one of the leading causes of infertility in women, yet etiology is not well under…

26/07/2014

IMPORTANT NEWS! Chicken Soup Chinese Medicine is Moving http://conta.cc/1k1bJvs

03/02/2014

GroundHog Day Update From Chicken Soup http://conta.cc/1fnhQCZ

11/01/2014

Hepatitis C/HIV
Here you go: a new clinical trial for HIV/HCV co-infection is getting underway soon

11/01/2014

African Americans have a very high rate of hepatitis C. Read more here...

Seventy-five percent of adults with hepatitis C are from the baby boomer generation. Within the African-American community, chronic liver disease, often hepatitis C-related, is a leading cause of death among people between the ages of 45 and 64.

05/01/2014

90% of people with cryoglobulinemia have hepatitis C. Get tested. Get treated.

The Alliance for Cryoglobulinemia aims to connect patients, family and professionals.

30/11/2013

Liver Health
Important information on liver cancer

The Web Site of the American Liver Foundation.

24/11/2013

Hepatitis C New Drug approved in Canada

Medivir AB announced that Health Canada has approved simeprevir for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C (CHC) genotype 1 infection, in combination with peginterferon alfa and ribavirin in adul

14/11/2013

Hepatitis C Professional Certification
We are excited to start our HCV certification courses again from the Misha Ruth Cohen Education Foundation along with Progressive Medical Education.
Please pass this along.

Prerequisite Class 4.5 hours: The aim of the course is to provide a fundamental review of liver anatomy, physiology, and pathology. We will examine the current epidemiology of hepatitis C and evaluate the manifestations of chronic hepatitis C and it's accompanying abnormal liver chemistries. We wil...

13/11/2013

Hepatitis C Support from Hepatitis C ResearchandNews
This is great!
And very healthy and tasty.....

According to the old rule of thumb, you're supposed to drink eight glasses of water per day (and some experts recommend even more). That can seem like a daunting task on some days, but here's the catch: You don't have to drink all that water. Roughly 20% of our daily H2O intake comes from solid food...