What is Hepatitis C?

Hepatitis C is a blood-borne disease that millions of people across the world have contracted. The disease can cause much damage to the body, as it is known to attack the liver, causing cirrhosis and requiring the patient to often undergo a liver transplant in order to return to everyday life. There are two phases [...]

Hepatitis C is a viral infection that affects the bodies’ largest organ, the Liver. Hepatitis C is transmitted via the blood and causes liver inflammation and in severe cases, Cirrhosis or cancer.

As the Hepatitis C virus progress, depending on how many years a person has been infected and how fast the infection proceeds, the damage to one's liver can be quite extensive. At some point the health care provider may decide it important to know exactly how widespread the liver damage is. The first thing that [...]

Hepatitis C is a disease that is relatively common throughout the world. In this article, we'll address some of the questions that people often have about the disease so that you can increase your knowledge.

Hepatitis C patients are routinely treated with either Interferon or a mix of Interferon and Ribavirin. These drug therapies are known to have positive results in wiping out the infection of at least diminishing its effects. . The problem is that they also have side effects, some of which can be difficult to deal with. [...]

Though no one is suggesting that using illegal injectable drugs, like heroin, is a good idea, if you are going use them then there may be certain things you must think about beyond the drug use itself. There are more dangers to the injection drug user than the worries of getting arrested for drug possession [...]

Hepatitis C is a dangerous disease that can cause your liver to become so severely damaged that a transplant is necessary in order for you to stay alive. It's a disease that is not as commonly discussed as Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B, but it is widespread nonetheless, with thousands upon thousands of people throughout [...]

One of the great mysteries of disease is why the same illness so often affects one group of people differently then another group. This is just as true of the Hepatitis C virus as it is of so many others. Hepatitis C affects the African American population in the United States worse the Caucasian, Hispanic [...]

Hepatitis C is a particularly troublesome strain of the hepatitis disease. This is due to many reasons, including the fact that there has not yet been a vaccine created that can render us immune to the disease. Also, this type of hepatitis can spread in a multitude of ways. It is a blood-borne illness and [...]