After Steve Jimerson was diagnosed with hepatitis C in prison, his widow said, he was on the lookout for news of treatment advances. In 2013, Gilead Sciences introduced Sovaldi, the first of a new ...

Hepatitis A is a temporary liver infection caused by the hepatitis A virus. Symptoms include diarrhea, dark urine, fatigue, fever, nausea, vomiting, pain, and jaundice, yellowing of the eyes and skin.

HealthDay News — The combination drug Epclusa has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to treat the 6 major strains of chronic hepatitis C virus. Epclusa combines sofosbuvir, ...

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Researchers suggest adding a new drug boceprevir to a two-drug treatment can enhance outcomes for hepatitis C patients, according to a USA Today news report. The drugs currently used to treat ...

Drug combination reaches key threshold for 'functional cure' of chronic liver infection that affects more than 250 million people worldwide An international team of researchers led by Chinese medical ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 2 million people in the U.S. are infected with hepatitis C. The bloodborne illness attacks the liver and can lead to cancer or ...

(Reuters) - A trio of oral medicines from Abbott Laboratories Inc to treat hepatitis C produced unprecedented cure rates in patients who had failed to benefit from standard treatment, as well as very ...

Hepatitis C is a viral infection impacting millions of people in the world. Nearly 58 million people worldwide have hepatitis C, with an estimated 2.4 to 3 million people living with it in the United ...

Millions of Americans live with chronic hepatitis and may not know it, because it can take years to become symptomatic. The most common types of the virus, hepatitis B and C, can lead to liver failure ...

The Christian doctor and researcher sees a “moral imperative” in destroying a curable fatal illness. Other countries are on track to erase it, but not the United States. Francis Collins, the former ...