When you’re diagnosed with any new illness, you have to learn how to manage treatment and keep yourself as healthy as possible. That’s definitely the case with hepatitis C, an infection of the liver ...

After Steve Jimerson was diagnosed with hepatitis C in prison, his widow said, he was on the lookout for news of treatment advances. In 2013, Gilead Sciences introduced Sovaldi, the first of a new ...

People who inject drugs have historically struggled to get treatment for the virus. Here’s how one physician has helped fight the stigma. When Lynn Taylor, MD, was in medical school, she studied under ...

In 2005, Nick Voyles was diagnosed with hepatitis C after being released from five years of incarceration. A nurse told him he had only six months to live. He was prescribed a drug cocktail, a ...

Part of President Biden's budget focuses on attacking hepatitis C, a disease that's almost completely curable with drugs. Left untreated, it can lead to chronic illness and even death. But roughly 2.4 ...

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 ...

For a decade now, the world has had highly effective medications for hepatitis C infections. In the United States, they’ve mostly been sitting on the shelf, according to a new study. These drugs, ...

If you’re diagnosed with a hepatitis C infection, you’ll need to take a few extra steps to make sure you receive the right treatment — at the right hands. Getting a hepatitis C diagnosis can take ...

State prison systems say they can’t afford to cure everyone with hepatitis C. The drug, even after a dramatic price drop, is still expensive. But several states have recently figured out how to make ...