#sustained virologic response

The burden of viral and nonviral liver disease remains high even in the setting of hepatitis C microelimination.

However, people with liver cirrhosis remain at risk and should continue screening even after being cured.

The short treatment could make transplantation of organs from donors with HCV more safe, effective and economical.

Pairing HCV testing and treatment eliminates the need to navigate the medical system.

People who received a shortened course of antiviral therapy were less likely to be cured.

The risk was lower in people who had achieved a sustained virological response compared with those who had not.

If your previous treatment for hep C resulted in failure, can you undergo treatment again? This question, and others, answered here.

Premature discontinuation of hepatitis C treatment did not diminish the likelihood of sustained virological response.

Sustained response to direct-acting antivirals prolonged survival by a year and a half.

Once you’ve officially rid yourself of hepatitis C, how certain can you be that the virus is gone for good?

Treatment for hep C is easier than ever before. In clinical trials, roughly 95 percent of those who took the newest meds were cured.

Ridding the body of hep C reduces central fatigue, which is weakness originating in the central nervous system.

Sofosbuvir and ribavirin cured between 67 and 88 percent of those coinfected with HIV and genotypes 1, 2 or 3 of hepatitis C virus in a recent...

Preliminary data from a trial of daclatasvir, asunaprevir and BMS-791325 showed hepatitis C cure rates around 90 percent.

Improves cure rates of hepatitis C and does not raise major treatment risks in those coinfected with HIV.

Much attention is focused on the effort to achieve a cure for hepatitis C. But what actually happens after the virus is finally gone?