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 ...

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 ...

For a decade now, the world has had highly effective medications for hepatitis C infections. In the United States, they’ve mostly been sitting on the shelf, according to a new study. These drugs, ...

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

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 ...

When revolutionary direct-acting antivirals started to debut on the market between 2011 and 2014 and were later proven to cure hepatitis C 90% of the time, they sported a list price around $94,500, or ...

Hepatitis C and opioid use disorder are both chronic but treatable conditions. Yet many Americans living with this deadly combination aren’t offered treatment. Imagine going to your doctor with strep ...

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, ...

Vir Biotechnology plans to give an exclusive license for the commercial rights to a chronic hepatitis delta treatment to an affiliate of Norgine. The biopharmaceutical company said Tuesday the license ...

Millions of Americans live with chronic hepatitis and may not know it, because it can take years to become symptomatic. The most common types of the virus, hepatitis B and C, can lead to liver failure ...

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