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A government proposal that all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis C may be drawing high praise for its potential health benefits, but it’s also raising questions about the unintended consequences ...

A test that uses a single drop of dried blood to detect HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C has been validated and is now in use in some high-risk settings in Denmark, according to research presented at ...

Screening for hepatitis C has been routine for pregnant women since 2020. But testing positive for the chronic liver infection often comes as a surprise, because the virus doesn’t usually cause ...

A new proposal by health officials to get all baby boomers tested for hepatitis C may face some pushback from the very generation it’s intended to help. Early comments from those born between 1945 and ...

VIENNA — Although hepatitis C medications can cure infection, a vaccine is needed to eradicate the virus, Eleanor Barnes, MBBS, PhD, said here at the International Liver Congress 2019. "The drugs are ...

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 ...

More than 15,000 Americans per year die from hepatitis C and most of them are in the baby boomer generation. That's why the federal government is recommending that anyone born from 1945 to 1965 get a ...

In another significant step toward a new era of personalized medicine, Celera Genomics is preparing to announce that it has developed a new genetic test that identifies which hepatitis C patients are ...

HealthDay News — The FDA has approved a new test to help healthcare providers identify the genotype of a person’s hepatitis C infection. The Abbott RealTime HCV ...

WASHINGTON — For nearly a decade, many experts assumed the biggest obstacle to eliminating hepatitis C was the sky-high cost of the new cures. So when Washington state and Louisiana signed flashy, ...