Archives: 2008 June

There are many things to be considered once a person is diagnosed with the Hepatitis C virus. The most important is the decision on treatment. Some health care providers will suggest starting treatment immediately while others will prefer to wait. If the progression of the liver disease is very mild and the patient appears to […]

Did you know that there is an estimated 270 to 300 million infected people worldwide and 9 out of 10 people infected are not aware?
There are three types of Hepatitis, A, B and C. The Hepatitis C virus is a liver disease that causes inflammation; in fact the word Hepatitis is the Latin word for […]

One of the great mysteries of disease is why the same illness so often affects one group of people differently then another group. This is just as true of the Hepatitis C virus as it is of so many others. Hepatitis C affects the African American population in the United States worse the Caucasian, Hispanic […]

Though no one is suggesting that using illegal injectable drugs, like heroin, is a good idea, if you are going use them then there may be certain things you must think about beyond the drug use itself. There are more dangers to the injection drug user than the worries of getting arrested for drug possession […]

Hepatitis C is a blood-borne disease that millions of people across the world have contracted. The disease can cause much damage to the body, as it is known to attack the liver, causing cirrhosis and requiring the patient to often undergo a liver transplant in order to return to everyday life. There are two phases […]

The single largest group in the United States that require liver transplants are those who are in the final stages of liver disease based on long term infection by the Hepatitis C virus. The problem is that even after a transplant Hepatitis C, also known as HCV, is known to recur in up to eighty […]

The medications used in Hepatitis C drug therapy have greatly improved over the last while. This is because of the combination of interferon and ribavirin has been having great success upping the rate of eradication of the illness to closer to fifty percent. Ribavirin is an antiviral medication that is believed to suppress the manufacture […]