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• New Screening and testing policy

  Liitle progress towards `test all baby boomers for hepatitis C` since 2013, US study shows

  Keith Alcorn / 20 hours ago

  The proportion of baby boomers who have been tested for hepatitis C in the United States since 2013 has increased only marginally despite a US Centers for Disease Control recommendation that everyone ...

• Life after the cure

  Psychological relief is the most important benefit of a hepatitis C cure for patients

  Roger Pebody / 13 September 2018

  When asked to describe what their hepatitis C cure meant to them, Australians who had recently completed treatment emphasised an improved sense of psychological wellbeing, according to a qualitative study recently published in ...

• Mother to child

  Less than half of children born to mothers with hepatitis C tested for HCV, US study finds

  Keith Alcorn / 11 September 2018

  Less than half of the children born to mothers with opioid dependency and hepatitis C were tested for hepatitis C between 2006 and 2015 in a large clinic providing antenatal care for ...

• Treatment outcomes

  Reinfection risk after hepatitis C treatment higher in recent drug users

  Keith Alcorn / 07 September 2018

  Reinfection with hepatitis C after successful treatment is more common in younger people who inject drugs and recent and former drug users are at greatest risk of reinfection, a cohort study in ...

• Treatment issues

  DAAs safe and effective in elderly people with HCV

  Michael Carter / 05 September 2018

  Treatment with direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) is safe and effective in elderly people with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, according to German research published in Drugs & Aging. Elderly people (aged 70 years ...