Hep C treatment challenges may include overcoming stigma, managing side effects, and coping with financial costs. But support is available. If you’ve received a hepatitis C diagnosis, it’s important ...

Hepatitis C is a tiny virus with a significant impact. It's a small RNA virus that spreads through the blood and infects the liver. Even though today's medicines can cure it, hepatitis C remains a ...

U ntil recently, most people diagnosed with hepatitis C were baby boomers, many of whom got the infection via a blood transfusion. As of 2024, hepatitis C is mostly spread via needles, syringes, and ...

Rick Jaenisch went through treatment six times before his hepatitis C was cured in 2017. Each time his doctors recommended a different combination of drugs, his insurer denied the initial request ...

ALL CLEAR: “I don't have to worry about [hepatitis C] anymore or worry about it progressively getting worse,” says Maia Hughes, who sought treatment for HCV in 2018. She cleared the virus from her ...

Northwestern scientists have created the fastest-ever hepatitis C diagnostic, delivering accurate results in only 15 minutes.

A new treatment for hepatitis C that costs just $300 has been found to deliver a cure rate of more than 97 percent, making it equal to or more effective than existing treatments that run into the tens ...

Hepatitis C is a liver disease that spreads through contact with infected blood. Treatment and medical benefits can be expensive, but there are programs and strategies that can help lower the cost.

MONTREAL — Inmates awaiting trial or serving sentences of less than a year can be effectively treated for hepatitis C during their incarceration, new research shows. Jail is a setting in which ...

The Philadelphia Department of Prisons has quietly started testing all inmates with hep C and curing those who stay long enough to complete treatment. Debra D'Aquilante, an infectious disease ...

As the number of people who inject drugs has soared, the rate of hepatitis C infection has climbed steeply, too, because the disease can be tied to sharing needles. Yet many drug patients are not ...

With a potential $28 million price tag looming, a federal appeals court heard arguments in a long-running dispute about whether Florida is providing proper treatment to prisoners with hepatitis C. The ...