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BEIJING, Feb. 22 (Xinhuanet/GNA) -- Plastic surgeries do make you look much younger, according to a new study published in the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery. Researchers from the University of Toronto in Canada and the NorthShore University Health ...See all stories on this topic »

A prosecutor is investigating whether a western Pennsylvania county jail inmate infected with hepatitis C spit or blew his nose into food served to more than 200 guards and other staff. Westmoreland County District Attorney John Peck has confirmed the ...See all stories on this topic »

Wall Street is clamoring to get in on the newest Hepatitis C drug stock rally. The move is largely a reaction to a series of successful developments from several new Hepatitis C treatments. The virus currently affects about 170 million people worldwide ...See all stories on this topic »Kapitall Blog (blog)

Novartis agreed to pay as much as $440 million for the rights to an experimental drug against hepatitis C, joining Foster City's Gilead Sciences and Bristol-Myers Squibb in seeking deals to gain medicines against the virus.See all stories on this topic »

(Ivanhoe Newswire) – Nearly four million people in the United States are infected with genotype-1 hepatitis C — a virus that attacks the liver, causing swelling, scarring, cancers and the need for transplants. And unlike hepatitis B, ...See all stories on this topic »

AP Doctors encourage patients to get tested for Hepatitis C, as many people who are infected with the virus don't know it. WASHINGTON — Deaths from liver-destroying hepatitis C are on the rise, and new data shows baby boomers especially should take ...See all stories on this topic »New York Daily News

Hepatitis C mortality rates surpassed HIV mortality rates in the United States in 2007, researchers said Monday. In a study in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine (abstract here), US Centers for Disease Control researchers analyzed causes of death ...See all stories on this topic »

By SAMANTHA COSSICK Franklin County Court is considering a motion of sanctions in the case of a Waynesboro man alleging he contracted hepatitis C during a procedure at Urology Associates of Chambersburg. Judge Richard J. Walsh heard arguments from both ...See all stories on this topic »

Eyler claims in the lawsuit that he learned he had contracted hepatitis C only after a November 2008 biopsy. However, records from the former Franklin County Prison (now Franklin County Jail) indicate Eyler might have had the blood-borne infection in ...See all stories on this topic »

Eyler claims in the lawsuit that he learned he had contracted hepatitis C only after a November 2008 biopsy. However, records from the former Franklin County Prison (now Franklin County Jail) indicate Eyler might have had the blood-borne infection in ...See all stories on this topic »

Eyler claims in the lawsuit that he learned he had contracted hepatitis C only after a November 2008 biopsy. However, records from the former Franklin County Prison (now Franklin County Jail) indicate Eyler might have had the blood-borne infection in ...See all stories on this topic »

Eyler claims in the lawsuit that he learned he had contracted hepatitis C only after a November 2008 biopsy. However, records from the former Franklin County Prison (now Franklin County Jail) indicate Eyler might have had the blood-borne infection in ...See all stories on this topic »

Eyler claims in the lawsuit that he learned he had contracted hepatitis C only after a November 2008 biopsy. However, records from the former Franklin County Prison (now Franklin County Jail) indicate Eyler might have had the blood-borne infection in ...See all stories on this topic »

Eyler claims in the lawsuit that he learned he had contracted hepatitis C only after a November 2008 biopsy. However, records from the former Franklin County Prison (now Franklin County Jail) indicate Eyler might have had the blood-borne infection in ...See all stories on this topic »

Often being asymptomatic, it is estimated between 130 - 170 million people worldwide are infected with the virus that can lead to scarring of the liver and cirrhosis. Although treatment with medication is available, it isn't effective in all cases and ...See all stories on this topic »

WriteResult announced today it is receiving data from the first randomized patients in a new Phase III clinical study for the treatment of Hepatitis C. This marked the company's seventh study started in 2011, a record year for portfolio growth.See all stories on this topic »

Hepatitis C deaths are on the rise, and new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows baby boomers are most at-risk. Denver resident Rich Arno was diagnosed with Hepatitis C in 1999. “I knew something was wrong, or I suspected for ...See all stories on this topic »kwgn.com

That case resulted in a $500 million jury award in May 2010 to a Las Vegas private school headmaster who became infected with hepatitis C, and his wife. A separate jury awarded other plaintiffs $182.6 million in a case in which pharmaceutical ...See all stories on this topic »

Grammy-winning Cuban-American singer Jon Secada added his voice to a growing public health campaign to raise awareness of chronic hepatitis C infection. The condition hits home for the singer, since his father died last November due to complications ...See all stories on this topic »Artistdirect.com

KEN RITTER AP LAS VEGAS — Court-ordered talks have yielded settlements in about 40 lawsuits involving drug companies blamed for supplying an anesthetic to Las Vegas medical clinics where health officials say patients contracted incurable hepatitis C ...See all stories on this topic »