Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The rate of vertical hepatitis C transmission is nearly 25% higher than commonly assumed, according to a ...

Hepatitis C treatment while breastfeeding Direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) are the class of drug doctors typically use to treat chronic hepatitis C. Most people who are not pregnant or breastfeeding ...

If you’ve heard of hepatitis C (hepa-what?!), you might think of actress Pamela Anderson, who was diagnosed with the disease in the early 2000s. Or maybe you associate it with people who have ...

Efforts to control blood-borne infections have dramatically reduced HIV incidence among injection drug users (IDUs), but declines in hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection have been less substantial, ...

Test results have affirmed that hepatitis C transmission did occur at a now-closed medical office in Santa Barbara, Calif., due to infection control lapses, according to the Santa Barbara County ...

Given that HCV is a bloodborne virus, any circumstance that promotes continued drug injection—including failure to prevent or diagnose and adequately treat substance use disorders—can result in ...

Hepatitis C is a serious condition that can greatly affect your liver and overall health. The culprit is a virus called hepatitis C virus (HCV), which typically gets into a person’s system through ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The high incidence of hepatitis C infections among drug abusers may be ...

hepatitis C virus, HCV Investigators sought to categorize hepatitis C virus infections in HIV-positive MSM as either domestically or internationally acquired and evaluate how this classification ...

The Capital Newsrooms checks in with Dr. Andrew Talal, a member of the state’s Hepatitis C Elimination Task Force, who provides an update on New York’s goal of eliminating the transmission of the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of illicit fentanyl increased injection drug users’ risk for hepatitis C by more than 60%. The finding has ...