With an estimated 400,000 South Africans using heroin and 82,500 administering drugs by injection, harm reduction services ...

Richards also paid tribute following her death, posting a single photo with Faithfull ... In 2007, she announced she had hepatitis C after being diagnosed 12 years prior.

The most common types of the virus, hepatitis B and C, can lead to liver failure, cancer and death. They also kill more people in Philadelphia than HIV, according to the city's health department.

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 ...

Chennai: Deaths due to viral hepatitis, which causes inflammation and damage to the liver, surpassed AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria nearly a decade ago. Yet India, which contributes significantly ...

Hepatitis C (hep C) is a liver infection caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV). If you’ve recently received a hepatitis C diagnosis, there are several ways you can contribute to the success of ...

Throughout the 2000s, Faithfull opened up in her memoir, Memories, Dreams and Reflections, about battling hepatitis C. In 2014, the British artist reportedly broke her hip, then later suffered ...

With several drugs in use that inhibit the hepatitis B virus polymerases (nucleos(t)ide analogues (or NUCs)), some argue that new direct-acting antiviral drugs, and new NUCs in particular ...

The only natural host of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is humans. Model organisms for laboratory studies, especially mice, cannot be infected, which makes the search for a vaccine against HCV extremely ...

TIMMINS - The Timmins hospital is doing its part to reduce new hepatitis C infections in the next five years. In 2023, three Northern Ontario health unit areas that make up two per cent of the ...

Basically, some viruses (like viral hepatitis), excessive drinking or ... eating better can often help reduce liver inflammation. (Photo Credit: iStock/Getty Images) For example, having too ...

In the wake of deadly disasters, communities across the United States have banded together to search for lost photographs ...