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A new University of Pittsburgh study finds that 30% of pregnant Medicaid recipients with opioid use disorder tested positive for hepatitis C. But less than 1 in 5 of these patients receive follow-up care.
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Pennsylvania’s Department of Corrections has agreed to treat the state’s nearly 5,000 inmates with hepatitis C over the next three years as part of a…
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Seven out of 10 babies born to mothers with Hepatitis C at Magee-Women’s Hospital of UPMC are not screened for the virus, which can cause serious liver…
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The number of Pennsylvanians infected with acute hepatitis C more than doubled from 2009 to 2013, according to the Centers for Disease Control and…
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Screening and treating prison inmates for Hepatitis C would help reduce the number of infections in the general population according to projections made…
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Dee’s liver is scarred, but just a bit too healthy for her insurance to foot the bill for the new medications that cure hepatitis C more than 90 percent…
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State lawmakers could send to the governor a plan to make doctors test for hepatitis C among patients most likely to have it – baby boomers. The mandatory…
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About 15,100 people die each year from hepatitis C, making it the leading cause of chronic liver disease and liver transplantation.The disease can be…