Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Q&A: Expert discusses prevalence of hepatitis C in US state prisons

The World Health Organization has a goal to eliminate hepatitis C as a public health threat by 2030. The blood-borne virus affects more than 2 million people in the United States and killed more than 15,700 people nationwide ...

HIV & AIDS

Advancing care for people with HIV and hepatitis C

A team of researchers across Yale School of Medicine (YSM) and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) has published a set of papers on innovations in patient care for those diagnosed with hepatitis ...

Oncology & Cancer

Study: Race, ethnicity may play a role in cause of liver cancer

A new analysis of liver cancer has identified racial and ethnic differences and emerging trends for this highly fatal disease. The study, conducted by researchers with Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Hep C treatment initiation low among Medicaid recipients

While there are highly effective treatments for the hepatitis C virus (HCV), only one in five Medicaid enrollees diagnosed with HCV started treatment, according to a retrospective study led by researchers at Weill Cornell ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

People with a hepatitis C cure still face substantial risk of death

Individuals who have been cured of hepatitis C infection still face a substantially greater risk of death compared with the general population—between 3 and 14 times higher depending on liver disease stage, finds the largest ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Clinic is detecting—and treating—hepatitis C virus in infants

A pediatric infectious disease team led by University at Buffalo faculty is screening and treating hepatitis C virus (HCV)-exposed infants. The clinic's efforts are documented in a new paper based on an 11-year retrospective ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Hepatitis C rates soar among pregnant women

In the two decades since the opioid epidemic took off, the addiction crisis has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.

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