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Barwon Health is using a new outreach program to try to identify people living with undiagnosed hepatitis C.
Hep C Screening in the ED; Post-Pandemic Life Expectancy — Also in TTHealthWatch: declining kids' health and heart risk calculators in different ethnicities ...
In 2017, the FDA approved Mavyret to treat adults with chronic (lasting a long time) hepatitis C virus (hep C) genotypes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 infections without cirrhosis or with compensated cirrhosis.
“Hep C treatment has really become streamlined and simplified,” said Kim, who is also the associate editor of Hepatitis C Online, and noted the benefits of newer reflex diagnostic testing.
Frank Jamieson likely had hepatitis C for 40 years despite only being told that he had the virus in October.
Is there a vaccine for hep B? Yes, there is a vaccine for hepatitis B; it's usually administered in a series of two to three shots over the course of six months, which provides long-term protection.
A prisoner advocacy group has filed a federal lawsuit against Essex County Sheriff Kevin Coppinger, alleging that he is denying “life-saving” medical treatment for inmates diagnosed with ...
Phil Turney argued, across 59 painstaking pages of his 2018 complaint, that Idaho’s policy of treating only the sickest people in its custody for hepatitis C constituted cruel and unusual ...