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A study of 16 patients suggests that the virus that causes COVID-19 can live inside the body for up to eight days after symptoms end.

Alabama state pandemic guidance advises denying ventilators for use by people with metastatic cancer, AIDS and end-stage liver disease.

U.S. state health departments are providing information about COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.

As more cases arise, the CDC reminds the general public that immediate risk is still low.

New research is emerging about how the respiratory virus spreads and how people can protect themselves and others.

People with cancer, heart disease and diabetes are at increased risk for serious illness from COVID-19.

Hepatitis C is a stigmatized disease. How we talk about and the words we use can reduce this stigma.

A new report by the National AIDS Trust (NAT), a leading HIV organization in the United Kingdom, concludes that much more needs to be done to...

The hepatitis C virus not only affects liver cells, it may also establish infection in other cells.

There is a potential risk of transmitting hepatitis C virus (HCV) and hep B virus (HBV) at nail salons and barbershops if razors, clippers, na...

Fish pedicures are unlikely to transmit HIV or hepatitis C to people with uncompromised immune systems

In the United States, the number of people who have been infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) may have been undercounted by a whopping 1.1 mi...

The substantial decline in new HIV cases among IDUs in Baltimore has not been matched by reductions in the number of new hep C cases