Testing sites have been set up for nearly 3,300 Exeter Hospital patients who need to undergo testing for hepatitis C.Health officials said the patients may have been exposed to tainted syringes.

Only half of people in the United States who have ever been infected with hepatitis C get proper testing for the liver-destroying disease, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday. Proper testing is a ...

The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases/Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidance Panel has updated its guidelines concerning patients beginning antiviral therapies for the ...

The next time a doctor tells you they are going to draw your blood and work up some numbers, chances are they will be looking for more than potassium: hepatitis C. Even if you've never used needles, ...

Trade-offs in medicine can be harsh, even when clearly necessary. Chemotherapy can save people from cancer, but the side effects can wreak havoc on their bodies for months or years. These trade-offs ...

According to the World Health Organization, somewhere between 130 and 150 million people around the globe suffer from chronic hepatitis C infection. As the virus is usually asymptomatic it can go ...

Screening for hepatitis C has been routine for pregnant women since 2020. But testing positive for the chronic liver infection often comes as a surprise, because the virus doesn’t usually cause ...

The Connect to Cure program at the Damien Center helps people throughout the state of Indiana find care coordinators, testing, and finding treatment for Hepatitis C. What is the prevalence of ...

We analyzed data for the period 2010–14 from the MarketScan Commercial Claims and Encounters database, a commercial health insurance database managed by Truven Health Analytics. This database includes ...

For decades, many Americans with hepatitis C have struggled to get tested or died waiting for a cure that remained inaccessibly expensive within the nation’s fractured health care system. President ...

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