Healio

HCV testing guidelines tied to increased screening for pregnant women

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . HCV screening increased after guidelines updated to screen all adults and during each pregnancy. Screening rose ...
Healio

HCV testing increases among baby boomers

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . From 2013 to 2017, hepatitis C virus testing in the United States marginally increased among people born between ...
New Atlas

15-minute hep-C test makes same-day treatment possible

Hepatitis C is a tiny virus with a significant impact. It's a small RNA virus that spreads through the blood and infects the liver. Even though today's medicines can cure it, hepatitis C remains a ...
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New 15-minute hepatitis C test paves the way for same-day treatment

Scientists at Northwestern University have developed the fastest test yet for diagnosing hepatitis C virus (HCV). The highly accurate diagnostic delivers results to patients in just 15 minutes—up to ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Screening and Treatment Program to Eliminate Hepatitis C in Egypt

With the decreasing cost of direct-acting antivirals in Egypt (from $1,650 [in U.S. dollars] for 12 weeks of sofosbuvir plus daclatasvir in early 2015 to $85 for local generics in 2018), treatment of ...