The only natural host of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is humans. Model organisms for laboratory studies, especially mice, ...

Background To determine clinical-pathologic variables in patients with a new diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and underlying hepatitis B vs. C infection. Methods Patients presenting to ...

Between 1970 and 1991, tainted blood products and transfusions resulted in the infection of over 30,000 individuals with hepatitis C and HIV. More than 3,000 of them have since died. Many of them ...

A recent analysis from the University of Missouri found that mid-Missourians coming into its emergency room for opioid ...

Hepatitis C can be transmitted when blood that carries the virus comes into contact with the blood of someone who does not have the virus. This can occur if people share needles or personal care ...

You can contract hepatitis C by blood-to-blood contact. Ways to avoid reinfection to the hepatitis C virus include avoiding sharing needles and using condoms or another barrier method during sex.

The criminal charges against Dr. Dipak Desai and nurse anesthetist Ronald Lakeman focused on the cases of seven patients infected with hepatitis C in 2007 that health officials linked to Desai’s ...

This year, the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to virologists Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and biochemist Michael Houghton for the discovery of the hepatitis ...

The Minister of State for Primary Health Care, Margaret Muhanga, has acknowledged the presence of Hepatitis C in Uganda and revealed ongoing collaboration with the Egyptian government to secure ...