Despite decreased population-level hepatitis C virus screening in 2020, guidance to test all adults and during every pregnancy was associated with increased HCV screening for pregnant women ...

New guidelines from the CDC that were published today in MMWR recommend that all adults aged 18 years and older be screened for hepatitis C virus at least once in their lifetime. “The hepatitis ...

The guidelines, which supersede the previous version published in 2011, are designed to help physicians and other healthcare providers optimize their management of patients with acute and chronic HCV.

Guidelines for the management of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection have been updated to include testing and treatment recommendations for pregnant women, men who have sex with men (MSM ...

Evaluation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Recommendations for Hepatitis C Virus Testing in an Urban Emergency Department. Clinical Infectious Diseases , 2016; 62 (9): 1059 DOI ...

The implications of the new HCV guidance for all clinicians are discussed by Paul Martin, MD (member of the writing panel), and Helen Boucher, MD, in an interview with Medscape.

HCV Treatment Guidelines Updated With Antivirals. Da Hee Han, PharmD | June 26, 2015 ... Managing, and Treating Hepatitis C in 2014 has been published in ...

The World Health Organization wants a "concerted effort" to drive down the cost of new hepatitis C drugs that offer a cure for the liver-destroying virus but are unaffordable for most infected ...

The updated guidelines are intended to promote the scale-up of HCV treatment, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where few people currently have access to hepatitis treatment. Apr 13 ...

Canadians born between 1945 and 1975 – essentially the baby-boom generation – should be tested for the potentially liver-destroying virus hepatitis C, a new set of guidelines recommends. More ...

The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care’s decision to exclude baby boomers from their new guidelines concerning hepatitis C virus screenings is creating a ruckus throughout the medical ...