At Crescent Care, 204 people were treated for hepatitis C in 2019 during the first year of the state program. In previous years, that number had been in the single digits, Halperin said. But in ...

Hepatitis C is a "silent killer" that leads to over 15,000 ... The virus kills more than 15,000 people every year through complications like liver ... which uses a subscription model to limit ...

I n 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 ...

There’s no vaccine to prevent hepatitis C infections, which often go undetected for years – experts say the virus’ stealthy nature and inadequate access to testing mean that many more people ...

The Biden administration is seeking billions of dollars for a new push to wipe out hepatitis C, a virus that kills thousands of people annually in the U.S.

I’m here today to talk about a disease of grave seriousness — hepatitis. In recent years, the medical community has made ...

The hepatitis C virus (HCV) genome, discovered in 1989, is a spherical, enveloped, positive-strand RNA virus, ... Successful use of the hepatitis B vaccine, as a model, ...

Study: Hepatitis C virus E1 and modified E2 delivered from an mRNA vaccine induces protective immunity.Image Credit: Kateryna Kon / Shutterstock. Background. HCV infection causes asymptomatic ...

San Francisco clinics offer hepatitis B screening and regularly suggest it to patients as a push for universal screening ...

Davis KL, Mitra D, Medjedovic J, Beam C, Rustgi V. Direct economic burden of chronic hepatitis C virus in a United States managed care population. J Clin Gastroenterol . 2011;45(2):e17-e24. doi:10 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A pediatric infectious disease team led by University at Buffalo faculty is screening and treating hepatitis C virus (HCV)-exposed infants. The clinic’s efforts are documented in a new ...