Dec 5, 2023
Out for blood? For routine lab work, the hospital billed her $2,400“Reesha Ahmed was on cloud nine. It was January and Ahmed was at an OB-GYN’s office near her home in Venus, Texas, for her first prenatal checkup. After an ultrasound, getting anti-nausea...
Dec 4, 2023
Earlier Testing of Infants With Perinatal Hepatitis C Exposure: A Key Step Toward Elimination“Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection continues to be a major national public health problem and is targeted for domestic and global elimination. Driven by the ongoing opioid...
Nov 27, 2023
There’s A Real Chance To Stop This Miserable, Fatal Infection“Dying from hepatitis C is a notoriously miserable way to go. The virus attacks your liver ― in many cases, destroying its ability to make proteins and filter blood. You might not notice at first,...
Nov 21, 2023
Surveys show providers and patients increasingly endorse ‘whole-person’ integrative care“It has taken decades, but with each passing year, integrative health care is marching more squarely into the mainstream of American medicine. Countless millions of patients have...
Nov 20, 2023
Nursing’s Team of the Year 2023: ‘We don’t give up on anyone’“How a nurse-led project at an inner-city addiction centre was able to achieve micro-elimination of hepatitis C among a marginalised patient group” Government of Canada supports community-based projects to...
Caring Ambassadors Hepatitis C Program