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• IV Drug Use and Hepatitis C: Negative Consequences A look at IV drug use and how you’re more likely to get hepatitis C.
• Why Those With Hepatitis C Often Delay or Ignore Treatment Breakthroughs in treatment mean doctors can cure most people of hepatitis C. So why aren’t more people taking advantage of available medicines?
• Navigating Hepatitis C Treatment and Insurance Worried about affording your hep C care? Learn how to navigate insurance policies, costs, and more so you get the treatment you need.
• Taking Control of Your Hepatitis C in the Doctor’s Office When it comes to your hepatitis C care, are you in the driver’s seat? Learn about your rights, how to ask questions, and how health literacy can help you be your own advocate.
• Anti-Smooth Muscle Antibody Test: An Important Test for Autoimmune Hepatitis Learn about what an anti-smooth muscle antibody test is and how it is used to detect autoimmune hepatitis.
• Life After a Living-Donor Liver Transplant What can you expect after a living-donor liver transplant? Learn more about what happens after surgery.
• Who Is Most at Risk for Hepatitis C? Certain groups are more at risk for contracting hepatitis C. Baby boomers, health care workers, and people with HIV are more at risk.
• Pros and Cons of Living-Donor Liver Transplants Thinking of donating part of your liver? Or are you in need of a transplant? Learn more about the risks and benefits of this life-saving surgery.
• Breastfeeding With Hepatitis C: What You Need to Know Can moms who have this viral infection nurse their babies? Here are the facts and things to keep in mind to protect your baby’s health.
• What Is the Hepatitis C Incubation Period? After you first get hepatitis C, you may not feel any symptoms. During this early phase, tests also may not pick up signs of the virus at first.
• What Is a Fibrosis Score for Hepatitis C? To deal with health problems from hepatitis C, your doctor can measure the amount of fibrosis in your liver. This measurement is called a fibrosis score. Find out how it’s created.
• Acute vs. Chronic Hepatitis C: How They Differ If you have the hepatitis C virus in your blood for anywhere from a few weeks to a few months, you have “acute” hep C. After 6 months, it’s called “chronic.”
• Help for Hepatitis C Treatment Costs Some of the most effective hepatitis C drugs come with a hefty price tag. And insurance doesn’t always cover them. Learn how you can lower out-of-pocket expenses for your hep C treatments.
• What Is the APRI Score? The APRI score helps detect liver fibrosis for people with liver disease. Find out more about what it is, how it’s calculated, and why doctors use it instead of biopsies.
• What to Know About Hepatitis C Genotypes Scientists call the different types of hepatitis c “genotypes.” Each hepatitis C genotype has a different type of genetic makeup that helps define it. Learn more.
• What to Know About Treating Hepatitis C With Harvoni Harvoni is an “antiviral” medication that attacks hep C. It's one of most effective treatments for the condition.
• What Is SVR for Hepatitis C? Sustained virologic response (SVR) means that 12 weeks or more after you stop treatment for hepatitis C, tests can’t find the virus in your blood. Learn more about SVR and hepatitis C.
• What Is a GGT Test? Find out more about this test doctors use to help diagnose issues with your liver, like cancer and hepatitis.
• Living Liver Transplants: Pairing Donor and Recipient If you want to donate part of your liver to someone who needs a transplant, the two of you must be a good match. To make sure surgery goes well for both of you, doctors look at things like blood type, body size, and age.
• Why You Might Need a New Liver When your liver isn't working the way it should, it affects your body in a big way. Find out about diseases that cause liver failure, and when it may be time to consider a liver transplant.
• How Your Liver Works Your liver is the largest internal organ in your body -- and has a bunch of important jobs to do. Find out how it filters out toxins, helps break down the food you eat, and builds proteins that keep your body in good repair.
• Hepatitis C and Viral Load Your viral load test tells you how much hepatitis C virus is in your blood. The count will help your doctor decide on the best treatment, and track how well it works.
• Liver Diseases: What You Should Know Learn about illnesses that can affect your liver, including hepatitis, cancer, and autoimmune disorders.
• What Is Hepatitis D? Learn about symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment for this severe form of hepatitis that you can only get if you have hepatitis B.
• Complementary Treatments for Hepatitis C Some people turn to complementary treatments to help relieve symptoms or because their current medicine isn't working for them. Find out whether herbal supplements could help or hurt.
• Hepatitis C Stages and Progression Hepatitis C can be mild or serious, lasting a few weeks or a lifetime. Learn more about the paths the condition can take.
• Hepatitis C in Infants, Children, and Teens You might think that hepatitis C only happens in adults, but children get the liver disease, too. Find out how kids can get it, the ways doctors diagnose the disease, and what kind of medicine treats it.
• What Women Need to Know About Hepatitis C Hepatitis C affects women differently than men. Here’s how the virus and treatments affect sexual health, pregnancy, and birth control choices.
• What Women Need to Know About Hepatitis C Hepatitis C affects women differently than men. Here’s how the virus and treatments affect sexual health, pregnancy, and birth control choices.
• Does Milk Thistle Help Your Liver? Milk thistle, also known as silymarin, has been used for hundreds of years as an herbal remedy for liver problems. What is it? And can it really help your liver?
• What Are MELD and Child-Pugh Scores? If you’re living with liver disease, you’ll want to know your MELD and Child-Pugh scores. They can be your key to receiving a lifesaving transplant should you need one.
• Do Natural and Alternative Treatments Help Hep C? You may be tempted to try alternative or natural remedies for your hepatitis C. Here’s what may help -- and what you should avoid.
• What Is Toxic Liver Disease, or Hepatotoxicity? What is toxic liver disease or hepatotoxicity? Learn about the symptoms, causes and treatments.
• What Is Fulminant Hepatitis? Fulminant hepatitis can cause you to go into sudden liver failure. Learn more about the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of the is condition.
• What Is Hepatitis E? Hepatitis E is a virus that affects your liver. Learn more about how it spreads, common symptoms, and what to do if you are dignosed.
• Your Hep C Team If you have hepatitis C, a team of doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals give you treatment and care.
• Can Coffee Help Your Liver? Coffee not only helps get you through the day, it can be good for your liver, too. It may help keep disease away, and it might help fight a liver illness if you have one.
• Symptoms of Hepatitis C on Skin, Hair, and Nails Hepatitis C can damage more than your liver. Here’s what the virus can do to your skin, hair, and nails.
• Hepatitis and Pregnancy: What to Know Hepatitis is a group of viral infections that can seriously affect you and your unborn baby. Here’s what to know about the different types of hepatitis and your pregnancy.
• How Untreated Hepatitis C Can Affect Your Body Hepatitis C can affect your body from head to toe. Here’s why you should treat it.
• How Untreated Hepatitis C Can Affect Your Body Hepatitis C can affect your body from head to toe. Here’s why you should treat it.
• What Are Liver Lesions? Benign, or noncancerous, liver lesions are common and often don’t threaten your health. Cancerous liver lesions, however, are serious business.
• What's the Link Between Hepatitis C and Diabetes? Find out why you're more likely to get diabetes if you have hepatitis C, the role of insulin resistance, and what treatment you may need.
• Hepatitis A Treatments, Complications, and Prognosis There’s no cure for hepatitis A, but most people make a full recovery. Learn what to do while you’re waiting to get well.
• Liver Function Test If your doctor thinks you have a liver problem, you’ll likely get a liver function test. Learn what it’s used for, what to expect, and how to get ready for one.
• What Is Living Liver Donation? Find out about a surgery that gives people part of a new liver from a living, healthy person instead of waiting for an organ from a donor who has died.
• Who Can Donate a Liver? Interested in becoming a live liver donor? It’s more than a personal decision. Know what goes into deciding who would make an ideal donor.
• Liver Transplant Types and Preparing for Surgery If you or a loved one needs a liver donation, you’ll want to understand the different ways the procedure can happen, and how to prepare for surgery.
• Diet and Lifestyle Tips to Reverse Fatty Liver Disease Foods and supplements that fight cell damage make it easier for your body to use insulin, and lower inflammation may help reverse fatty liver disease.