Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and British-born scientist Michael Houghton jointly won the Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday for their discovery of the hepatitis C virus, a major source of liver disease that affects millions worldwide.
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Tossing out a court order forcing Florida prisons to treat inmates suffering from the early effects of hepatitis C, an 11th Circuit panel Monday ruled that state prison officials are not constitutionally required to treat all inmates who suffer from the disease with expensive antiviral drugs.
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With an eye toward ending a saga of preventable deaths from hepatitis C in Florida jails, inmates are fighting to preserve a court order that forces Sunshine State prisons to treat early stages of the disease.
Read moreA federal class action claims W.W. Hastings Hospital, of Tahlequah, Okla., exposed patients to HIV and hepatitis by reusing syringes, needles and vials.
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Bald eagles are dying from a new disease that mimics the symptoms of hepatitis C in humans and has been found in birds across the country, according to research released Friday.
Read moreFlorida officials declared a public health emergency over the rapid spread of Hepatitis A across the Sunshine State, as thousands of vaccines are being handed out for free each week.
Read moreArizona is seeing a surge in hepatitis A cases, mostly in the Tucson area but also in metro Phoenix, health officials say.
Read moreTwo class actions claim the HealthPlus Surgery Center, in Saddle Brook, N.J., was shut down by the state for improper sterilization procedures and other problems, exposing patients to hepatitis, HIV and other diseases, in Bergen County Court.
Read moreSuggesting the city and county of San Diego’s lack of urgency in responding to an unprecedented hepatitis A outbreak in 2017 led to over 500 cases of the disease and 20 deaths, California’s state auditor said Thursday the region’s plan to avoid another health emergency still falls short.
Read moreSome patients in desperate need of a kidney transplant participated in a bold experiment where they received organs infected with hepatitis C. The gamble paid off.
Read moreInmates claim in a federal class action that the California Department of Corrections inflicts cruel and unusual punishment by denying them medicine to cure hepatitis C, which is available.
Read moreA dozen people were arrested last weekend on misdemeanor charges of feeding homeless people: giving apples and bags of chips to people in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon. Attorneys say such laws are unconstitutional.
Read moreA bipartisan pair of San Diego City Council members called Monday for the former Chargers football training facility to be used as a temporary homeless shelter as a hepatitis A outbreak that has plagued the region now spreads across the country.
Read moreSan Diego County health officials said Tuesday another person has died in the hepatitis A outbreak gripping the region, as the city works to remove tons of trash from streets and riverbeds to curb the public health crisis.
Read moreSan Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer joined top city officials in an empty city-owned parking lot Wednesday to announce plans to turn it into a campground for homeless San Diegans looking to escape the deadly hepatitis A outbreak blanketing the region.
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The San Diego City Council is seeking solutions to a hepatitis A outbreak that has killed 16 people and infected more than 400, and is exacerbated the city’s growing population of homeless people, which increases during the winter.
Read moreAn inmate with Hepatitis C claims in a class action lawsuit that Virginia’s Department of Corrections refuses to treat him and other prisoners with the disease because it’s more cost-effective to let an inmate die than to provide care.
Read moreA Chicagoland pharmaceutical company claims in court that Swiss drug giant Novartis “has sought to patent the hepatitis C virus, itself,” so that anyone who tries to study or cure the disease must license the Novartis patents.
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