The hepatitis C virus—HCV—can persist in the livers of those infected and even lead to liver disease or failure in extreme ...

BOSTON — Hepatitis C infection was prevented or rapidly cured in transplant recipients who received organs from donors infected with the virus following combined treatment with ezetimibe and ...

Glecaprevir/pibrentasvir cleared infection in nearly all patients in a global phase IIIb s ...

Combination therapy with peginterferon alfa and ribavirin now eliminates detectable hepatitis C virus (HCV) from the blood of more than half of patients with long-term infections. However, many of ...

Patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections that were treated with the novel protease inhibitor, boceprevir, had better virologic responses than patients treated with peginterferon and ribavirin ...

The experts agree. Improved results, shorter treatment durations, and, thus, superior tolerability, make sofosbuvir (Sovaldi) and simeprevir (Olysio) breakthrough agents in the fight against the ...

Several investigational drug trials were presented at The Liver Meeting 2011 -- the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. Two groups reported the apparently ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Upon its discovery in 1989, the only treatment for hepatitis C was interferon. Later, ribavirin was added, and ...

SPRINGFIELD — Tapestry Health is a key partner in a new, $12-million Brown University five-year study of drug use and barriers to health care services, like HIV and hepatitis C treatment and overdose ...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing by using test cassette, the result showed positive (double red line) The COVID-19 pandemic and opioid crisis created new barriers to HCV treatment, leading to the ...

Mental health conditions are common among veterans and may play a larger role than previously recognized in raising liver cancer risk for those with hepatitis C.

Chronic hepatitis C infection has been linked to a higher risk of pancreatic cancer. Learn more about findings from a major ...