Less Support for Hepatitis C Testing for Baby Boomers

Less Support for Hepatitis C Testing for Baby Boomers

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Some advocates of wider screening said they feared the new opinion would be used by insurers to deny reimbursement for testing and would slow efforts to ferret out hidden cases of hepatitis C at a time when more effective and tolerable treatments are …
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Rape Charges Show Risk as States Ignore Forced-Drug Laws

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Such teams, called Assertive Community Treatment, or ACT, care for outpatients statewide. Over the four months that she and her ACT team worked with Mahdi, “he kept refusing” to take the drugs, Malone said. The state Department of Behavioral Health and …
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Brigham doctors implant less invasive heart devices

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Doctors call it a breakthrough treatment in preventing sudden cardiac fatalities, the most common cause of death in the United States. “This is a major advance, the most … When he learned last month that the Food and Drug Administration had approved …
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HCV Screening Benefit Still Uncertain

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As well, new agents that act directly against the virus are beginning to transform the treatment picture, which since the early 21st century had been based on several months of therapy with two drugs, pegylated interferon and ribavirin. Two new direct …
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