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 ...

Oral treatments with direct-acting antiviral medication have been a game-changer. These were approved in Ireland in late 2014 ...

The closure of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Division of Viral Hepatitis in the wake of the administration’s restructuring of the Department of Health and Human Services ...

A new test to screen blood donors for hepatitis C (HCV) is showing promise, having scored the highest against five other systems during an evaluation by Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Today is National Hepatitis Testing Day, a reminder of the importance of early detection for a virus that often shows no symptoms but can lead to serious liver damage. Ven ...

Hepatitis C is known as a “silent” virus that may not be detected until the slow but progressive and potentially ...

Even after symptoms clear, hepatitis C antibodies remain in your blood and could pose an infection risk to those receiving blood or plasma donations. Hepatitis C occurs from the hepatitis C virus (HCV ...

For the second time this month, Roche is launching a new immunoassay to help diagnose cases of hepatitis. This time around, the newly unveiled test is one designed to identify the hepatitis B e ...