Advocates, academics, medical professionals, legislators, policy experts, citizens, non-profit organizations, faith-based institutions, and others must work together to highlight and remedy the dire health consequences of Hepatitis C in our communities.
It's hard to argue cost-savings and disease reduction to a moralistic audience, and in many parts of the country, it's no use even trying. For the time being, some states might want to consider alternative means to syringe access and disease reduction
By Julie Steenhuysen NEW YORK, May 7 (Reuters) - Only half of people in the United States who have ever been infected with hepatitis C...
LAS VEGAS -- A Nevada jury ordered the state's largest health management organization on Tuesday to pay $500 million in punitive damages to three plai...
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Federal authorities warned against the infection risks of using insulin pens on more than one patient, and officials on Monday a...
Nov 10 (Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc on Saturday reported a 100 percent cure rate using a combination of drugs in a small number of patients with ...
f you're a baby boomer, getting tested for hepatitis C would be a wise decision because boomers are five times more likely to have this virus than other generations, and most people that have it don't realize it.
By Joseph O'Leary BOSTON, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Testing started on Friday on the patients of a New Hampshire hospital who may have been i...
Given the state's current political climate, it's unlikely Florida will change its drug paraphernalia laws any time soon, which means the residents of inner city Miami will need to continue to watch their step.
CONCORD, N.H. — A traveling medical technician accused of causing a hepatitis C outbreak in New Hampshire wrote a suicide note saying he "couldn...
CONCORD, N.H. — A dozen hospitals in seven states are scrambling to identify people who might have been infected with hepatitis C by a traveling...
CONCORD, N.H. — A traveling hospital technician accused of causing a hepatitis C outbreak in New Hampshire previously worked in Maryland and Mic...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has taken the unprecedented step of declaring a whole generation at higher than average risk of hepatitis C infection.
Headlines were made last month when the CDC released a draft proposal urging all baby boomers to get tested for hepatitis C, the blood-borne liver dis...
(Adds details on other studies, analyst comment, background) April 19 (Reuters) - An experimental hepatitis C drug acquired by Gilead ...
WASHINGTON -- During a demonstration Wednesday against the federal ban on clean needle exchange programs, a total of 29 AIDS activists were arrested a...
WASHINGTON -- Deaths from liver-destroying hepatitis C are on the rise, and new data shows baby boomers especially should take heed – they are m...
MIAMI -- Three-time Grammy winner Jon Secada wishes his father hadn't kept his chronic hepatitis C diagnosis a secret. The Cuban-American singer-song...
By Congressman Michael Honda (D-Calif.) and Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) There's a silent killer loose in America. It is viral hepatitis, and it con...
For too long, viral hepatitis, an epidemic that doesn't necessarily make headlines, has steadily and silently affected the lives of millions of Americans.
NEW YORK — The Food and Drug Administration approved Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s hepatitis C drug Incivek on Monday, making it the second new ...
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (CBS4) -- Parents whose children got flu shots at a clinic in Fort Collins are being told their children should be tested for bloo...
Last year, in a move applauded by many public health experts, the Colorado Legislature passed a law approving syringe exchange programs in the state....
WASHINGTON — There's new hope for an overlooked epidemic: Two powerful drugs are nearing the market that promise to help cure many more people of li...
Eighteen years before surgery scrub technician Kristen Parker infected 18 patients at Rose Medical Center with hepatitis C, another employee infected ...
