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The FDA has expanded approval of the direct-acting antiviral treatments Sovaldi and Harvoni for adolescents ages 12 and older.

The antiviral drug, which for some people can be a beneficial adjunct to the new crop of hep C medications, has gotten a bad rap.

But curing hepatitis C does lower the risk of liver cancer.

The virus kick-starts a process that blunts the body’s interferon-based immune response.

Former NFL star turned activist Rolf Benirschke kicks hepatitis C.

Gary Nash raises hepatitis C virus awareness by tackling TV’s toughest obstacle course.

It is good to know your limits, but it is also good to live life to the fullest extent you can, in spite of hepatitis C.

So take the interferon treatment, with a 50% possibility of a cure and a high chance of permanent organ damage but don’t use Indian generic

This treatment is not like Interferon. If you can access treatment, do it now. Don’t wait. Don’t be scared. This is a Golden Age for treatment...

Doctor? What doctor? I was healthy, strong, athletic, self-employed with no insurance plan, and enjoying life. I had always been healthy and a...

In the Olden Days (and by Olden I mean the Interferon Days) we had a different view on treatment success rates. Nowadays we are blown away by...

Over the past 40 years Cuba has developed a highly successful immunology community for all sorts of diseases.

Delaying hepatitis C treatment until liver damage was more advanced lowered the likelihood of a cure among interferon treatments in the pre-di...

Twelve weeks of Sovaldi (sofosbuvir), interferon and ribavirin cured 93 percent of people with the difficult-to-treat genotype 3 of hepatitis...

Treating people with genotypes 2 and 3 of hepatitis C is cost effective in some circumstances, including among those with cirrhosis and among...

While highly expensive, treating hepatitis C with the combination of Sovaldi and Olysio is still cheaper per cure than treating with interfer...