An estimated 2 million adults in the US have chronic hepatitis C, with new infections on the rise. Many patients are unaware ...

The viral illness kills more people in the city than HIV, but antiviral medications may be helping cut its transmission.

If you’ve recently received a hepatitis C diagnosis, there are several ways you can contribute to the success of your treatment. For example, you can stay on top of your health, communicate with ...

Direct-acting antiviral (DAA) medicines can cure most people with hepatitis C regardless of age, sex, race or HIV status. DAAs have few side effects and you can take them without interrupting your HIV ...

You can contract hepatitis C by blood-to-blood contact. Ways to avoid reinfection to the hepatitis C virus include avoiding sharing needles and using condoms or another barrier method during sex.

Considered once to be a lifelong disease, Hepatitis C has now been treated and cured in 1,000 patients at Kaiser Permanente.

new effective treatment medications are discovered almost by accident. This happened with the new generation of hepatitis C medications that have much higher cure rates, fewer and less severe side ...

However, Ros Cooper, who was infected with hepatitis C after treatment for a bleeding disorder as a child, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that an apology from the government “won’t bring ...

The study enlisted people with lived experience in substance use to meet individuals who use drugs, test them for hepatitis C, and then offer them treatment through telehealth or referral to a ...

Hepatitis C is curable with medication that’s been on the market for about 10 years, but patients can go years without any symptoms and often don’t know they’re infected. Untreated ...