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Serious Heart Infection Is Rising in People With Hepatitis C

Infective endocarditis is a life-threatening bacterial infection of the heart valves that is associated with injection drug use.

Clinics Need to Increase HIV and Hep C Testing for People Who Inject Drugs

A recent analysis found that health care providers missed opportunities to test 90% of such patients.

The United States of Opioids: The State of the Epidemic

Opioid use disorder is fueling a rise in youth hepatitis C cases and a stabilization of a long decline in HIV among people who use drugs.

Drug Use Is Driving Troubling Rise in Heart Infections

The opioid epidemic is principally responsible for a recent increase in infective endocarditis in the United States.
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