The success of recommendations to improve screening often rests on the availability of efficacious therapies, coverage policies, and other factors that enable and justify screening. Objectives: To ...

Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Liver Transplant, Kenneth Washburn, Sai Rithin Punjala An Ohio State University study finds more lives could be saved by using donors with hepatitis C ...

PHOENIX — A Phoenix medical center is using the dramatic rise of the opioid epidemic nationwide to help the growing number of individuals waiting for kidney transplants. Banner University Medical ...

A study, published in BMC Infectious Diseases, examined an EMR alert system’s effectiveness in promoting the intra-hospital referral of patients with hepatitis B surface antigen antibody or ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 70-year-old with O-negative blood type. When I was 40, the Red Cross notified me that antibodies of hepatitis C had been detected in my blood and they would no longer accept ...

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 ...

Roche has launched an new dual antigen and antibody diagnostic test for hepatitis C, the Swiss pharmaceuticals company said on Monday, which it says will give an earlier diagnosis of the virus. ZURICH ...

The Biden administration is preparing a comprehensive initiative to fight hepatitis C that would streamline testing and treatment and secure an agreement with drugmakers to bring down the cost of ...

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 ...

Screening for hepatitis C has been routine for pregnant women since 2020. But testing positive for the chronic liver infection often comes as a surprise, because the virus doesn’t usually cause ...