While the United States Preventive Services Task Force recommended hepatitis C testing for baby boomers in 2013, rates of screening among this population still remained low two years later, according ...

People with Hepatitis C don't usually have symptoms. "For our population, it typically targets people who use IV drugs the most just because they may share needles," said Chanel Epps, viral hepatitis ...

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 ...

The most recent CDC data showed a more than 1,300% increase in hepatitis A virus infections between 2015 and 2019, and a 63% increase for hepatitis C. Dr. Mamta Jain leads several Hep-C studies at ...

More than two million Americans are living with hepatitis C — and don’t even know it. The ElimiNATION Awareness Tour began in 2018, offering free hepatitis C (HCV) antibody screenings and confirmatory ...

Up to 70 per cent of Victorians with suspected hepatitis C may not have received follow-up testing, putting them at risk of chronic liver disease and even cancer, University of Melbourne researchers ...

A recent analysis from the University of Missouri found that mid-Missourians visiting emergency room for opioid overdoses had high rates of hepatitis C positivity but low rates of being tested for the ...

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