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 ...

Harriet Callahan was caught completely by surprise. While visiting a doctor for arthritis a few years ago, a routine blood test revealed she had hepatitis C, one of the deadliest infectious diseases ...

For decades, many Americans with hepatitis C have struggled to get tested or died waiting for a cure that remained inaccessibly expensive within the nation’s fractured health care system. President ...

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An international study involving 380 patients has seen 90% of patients “cured” of Hepatitis C in the course of 12 weeks. Experts are calling the treatment a turning point in the treatment of the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among more than 1.7 million people with hepatitis C, only 34% were considered cured. Cure rates were lowest ...

Nearly a decade after a wave of breakthrough treatments began hitting the market, a “jarringly low” number of people with hepatitis C have been cured because they are not taking the medication, ...

It is worthwhile to give patients expensive new drugs that can cure their hepatitis C much earlier than some insurers are now willing to pay for them, according to a UC San Francisco study that models ...

According to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the vast majority of individuals with hepatitis C still have not been cured nearly 10 years after breakthrough ...

Individuals who have been cured of hepatitis C infection still face a substantially greater risk of death compared with the general population - between 3 and 14 times higher depending on liver ...

People who inject drugs have historically struggled to get treatment for the virus. Here’s how one physician has helped fight the stigma. When Lynn Taylor, MD, was in medical school, she studied under ...