This month we will look at what the liver does, how to keep it healthy, and problems that happen when the liver becomes ...

Hepatitis C is a contagious liver disease caused by the hepatitis C virus, or HCV. In some cases, the virus causes a long lasting infection. When that happens, inflammation from the infection ...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are the two most common causes of chronic liver disease in North America. NAFLD represents a spectrum of liver lesions that ...

Hepatitis C is a blood-borne infection that is transmitted in some of the same ways as HIV. Over time untreated hepatitis C can cause serious liver disease including cirrhosis and liver cancer. Modern ...

In the US and Europe, a common way to determine who should receive treatment is via testing for fibrosis, the stiffening of the liver which many hep C patients develop, although this can take ...

The disease has been ‘micro eliminated’ - meaning it has been eradicated in the county’s population through quick and easy ...

Hepatitis C is a potentially life threatening and chronic infection that affects a person’s liver function. Medicare covers screenings and some medications to treat hepatitis C. Yet there’s a ...

And if you’re pregnant, you can pass it on to your newborn. Viral hepatitis is an inflammation of your liver that's caused by a virus. The most common ones in the U.S. are hep A, B, and C.

More than 30,000 people have already benefited from new drugs to treat hepatitis C and the death rate from related liver diseases has already fallen by more than 16% between 2015 and 2017.

Figure 3: a–c, Liver sections of rats after DMN administration. Sprague–Dawley rats 4–5 weeks old and 120–130 g in body weight were used. To produce liver cirrhosis, 1% DMN dissolved in ...

A team at the Timmins and District Hospital is working to eliminate hepatitis C by 2023 through testing, treating and potentially saving lives. The Liver Health Team is working to treat people who ...