Science & Medicine
Hepatitis C-related deaths outpace HIV deaths, study says
Feb. 21, 2012
California
Eight cases of hepatitis A have been confirmed in diners at 555 East American Steakhouse in downtown Long Beach, according to the city’s Department of Health and Human Services.
Feb. 10, 2020
World & Nation
A trio of deadly afflictions is ripping through a rural county in southern Indiana.
June 18, 2015
Health: Booths at Anaheim convention point up concerns about hepatitis C, which is more prevalent among ex-service personnel.
Aug. 15, 1999
Disease: Former service personnel suffer life-threatening liver ailment at four times the national average, experts say.
In a development experts say they have anticipated with apprehension, significant numbers of homosexual men in the Los Angeles area are starting to contract a newly recognized variety of hepatitis--a type more severe, disabling and more frequently fatal than the two major common strains.
June 11, 1985
Hepatitis C can now be cured in most cases with antiviral medication. Yet in the U.S., only a fraction of people who are found to be infected promptly start treatment.
Jan. 1, 2023
Opinion
The Los Angeles County jail system needs a concerted effort to screen for and treat the blood-borne liver disease, which kills about 14,000 Americans a year.
April 2, 2024
Babylon & Beyond
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Nov. 8, 2010
An ailing inmate worker in the kitchen at Men’s Central Jail unwittingly exposed thousands of detainees to hepatitis A before medical staff discovered what was wrong with him, triggering a vaccination campaign last year.
Feb. 16, 2024