To tackle the ongoing high burden of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections among people who inject drugs (PWID), WHO has set a specific incidence target among PWID of no more than two new infections per ...

In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish infection of liver cells, researchers have identified a vulnerability that opens ...

While sex is built into the very definition of an STI, experts caution that it is possible to contract one without getting it ...

For hepatitis C, there are antiviral treatments that lead ... Your doctor can treat symptoms such as fatigue and itching with medications. Dietary supplements can address malnutrition due to ...

However, as it progresses, it can cause symptoms such as itchy skin, pruritus, and a rash. Around 35.5 million adults in the United States live with kidney disease, but only about 10% know they ...

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Hepatitis C is an infectious disease of the liver caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV). In the United States, it is the most common blood-borne infection, impacting around 2.4 million Americans, or ...

Hepatitis C can be transmitted when blood that carries the virus comes into contact with the blood of someone who does not have the virus. This can occur if people share needles or personal care ...

You can contract hepatitis C by blood-to-blood contact. Ways to avoid reinfection to the hepatitis C virus include avoiding sharing needles and using condoms or another barrier method during sex.

About 250 million people worldwide are chronically infected with Hepatitis B virus (HBV), contributing to a ... which result in cell proliferation, anti-apoptosis, c-Jun activation, VM, EMT, liver ...