A clinic in Melbourne is under investigation after several patients may have contracted a disease at the facility.

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 ...

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 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 ...