Glecaprevir/pibrentasvir cleared infection in nearly all patients in a global phase IIIb s ...
Researchers report that patients with chronic hepatitis C who are treated with direct-acting antiviral medicines are less likely to be hospitalized or seek emergency care for liver and non-liver ...
Norah Terrault, MD, MPH, will never forget the patient who slipped away. He was in late middle age and had lived with hepatitis C for several decades before undergoing treatment. Antiviral drugs ...
A new scoring system using common clinical parameters accurately identifies chronic liver disease patients with a ...
Oct. 4--Charleston-- State health officials say some low-income West Virginians with Hepatitis C may be newly eligible for coverage of their treatment. West Virginia has one of the highest rates of ...
There’s a highly effective and often curative treatment for people with hepatitis C, but less than a third of insured patients get it within a year of diagnosis, according to a new study. The ...
The municipal hospital in which the HCV outbreak occurred provides general as well as specialty medical and surgical services. Between July 1 and October 13, 1998, HCV infection was diagnosed in four ...
PHILADELPHIA—A new study led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has found that the risk of hepatitis C-associated serious liver disease persists in HIV ...
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 ...
The hepatitis C virus—HCV—can persist in the livers of those infected and even lead to liver disease or failure in extreme ...