Hepatitis C virus treatment is often restricted in Medicaid patients. This analysis evaluates the clinical and cost impacts of treating all Medicaid patients versus the current status quo. Objectives: ...
John Ellis had barely heard of hepatitis B when he was diagnosed with the potentially fatal disease at age 16.
A diagnosis of hepatitis C can mean different things for different people. Some patients meet the challenge head on, like they would any other disease. They talk to their doctor, get through their ...
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday adopted its vaccine advisory committee’s recommendation to end the ...
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention committee voted to eliminate a recommendation that all newborn babies receive a vaccine against hepatitis B, ending a policy that has been in place since ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An MRI-derived, noninvasive tissue biomarker improved autoimmune hepatitis management by distinguishing patients ...
The Kaiser Permanente Hawaii Viral Hepatitis Clinic reached a milestone by curing its 1,000th patient of hepatitis C. “It’s a very satisfying thing to make that call and tell someone they’re cured,” ...
The municipal hospital in which the HCV outbreak occurred provides general as well as specialty medical and surgical services. Between July 1 and October 13, 1998, HCV infection was diagnosed in four ...
Michael Mendez said that when learned he had hepatitis C, “I didn’t even know what it was.” Mendez, 47, had been homeless for years in Los Angeles, and said he hadn’t gone to a doctor the entire time ...
As San Diego’s hepatitis A outbreak has continued to grow, so has a fascination about the identity and importance of “patient zero,” the first person believed to be infected in a surge of illness that ...
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