A jail-based strategy that includes hepatitis C virus testing, treatment and post-release navigation services could reduce ...

A study of more than 4,500 US infants exposed to hepatitis C virus (HCV) in utero or at birth from 2014 to 2021 finds that ...

It took less than 22 years after the discovery of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) for a fast-acting, highly effective treatment ...

Millions of Americans are still battling potentially deadly hepatitis C even though they could be cured with antiviral drugs ...

With more than 170 million individuals currently infected, HCV is a global pandemic, effecting approximately 3% of the entire world's population. HCV infection is a growing infectious disease pandemic ...

Asymptomatic disease and early progression. The progression of HCV infection to cirrhosis is often asymptomatic and clinically silent. In chronic hepatitis, the correlation of biochemical liver ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Chronic HCV infection was associated with a 1.8-fold increased risk for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

Findings showed that in patients treated with glecaprevir/pibrentasvir, the overall SVR12 rate was 96%, with 0 patients experiencing virologic failure. The Food and ...

In previous articles of this series, we’ve discussed several aspects of the hepatitis C virus including the nature of the infection and its distribution both globally and in the United States. Most ...

Most people infected by the hepatitis C virus (HCV) can be cured with antiviral therapy, but access to the treatment remains limited. Even diagnosis of hepatitis C, a disease that causes chronic ...