U ntil recently, most people diagnosed with hepatitis C were baby boomers, many of whom got the infection via a blood transfusion. As of 2024, hepatitis C is mostly spread via needles, syringes, and ...

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 ...

Rick Jaenisch went through treatment six times before his hepatitis C was cured in 2017. Each time his doctors recommended a different combination of drugs, his insurer denied the initial request ...

ALL CLEAR: “I don't have to worry about [hepatitis C] anymore or worry about it progressively getting worse,” says Maia Hughes, who sought treatment for HCV in 2018. She cleared the virus from her ...

Large study in veterans detects increased pancreatic cancer risk, needs validation ...

A new CDC report finds that just a third of those diagnosed with hepatitis C have cleared the virus — a decade after a cure was made available. Hepatitis C can be cured. So why aren't more people ...