Evelyn Rivera had never heard of hepatitis C — until she was diagnosed with it. In 1995, Rivera, then a single mom to a couple small kids, participated in an elementary school blood drive. A few ...
Despite bipartisan agreement on the need for testing and treatment for the life-threatening liver disease hepatitis C, potentially hundreds of thousands of Americans remain untreated or even unaware ...
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) has multiple genotypes of which genotype 1 is the most common in the United States. Cirrhosis does not develop in all patients infected with HCV. Elevated serum ...
When managing patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV), initiating treatment of the infection promptly is more important than determining the severity of their liver disease with the customary staging ...
A University of Houston College of Pharmacy professor has published two studies offering a comprehensive look at chronic ...
Insulin resistance is a common extrahepatic manifestation of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection (HCVi), but its mechanism is ...
WASHINGTON -- Liver cancer risk after hepatitis C virus (HCV) cure was significantly greater in patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), according to a ...
​It was hailed as a “triumph of 21st century medicine” — a daily pill that cures a life-threatening liver disease in a matter ...
New data presented today at The International Liver Congress™ 2015, supports the use of sofosbuvir (SOF)- and daclatasvir (DCV)-based regimens in patients with recurrence of the hepatitis C virus (HCV ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cumulative incidence rates of HCC longitudinally increased over 5 years, although recurrence plateaued. Survival ...
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 ...