Ten years ago, safe and effective treatments for hepatitis C became available. These pills are easy-to-take oral antivirals with few side effects. They cure 95% of patients who take them. The ...

Michael Mendez said that when learned he had hepatitis C, “I didn’t even know what it was.” Mendez, 47, had been homeless for years in Los Angeles, and said he hadn’t gone to a doctor the entire time ...

Most Americans diagnosed with hepatitis C have not been treated and cured despite the availability of well-tolerated antiviral therapy for a decade, according to a new report from the Centers for ...

Q: My son is in prison, and he has hepatitis C. He was told by a doctor that there is treatment for it, and it would help cure it. Is there a cure? Can a person live a healthy life after contracting ...

These pills are easy-to-take oral antivirals with few side effects. They cure 95% of patients who take them. The treatments are also expensive, coming in at $20 to 25,000 dollars a course. A new ...