There are many myths about Hepatitis C, they are like the urban legends of the medical world, and below you will find many myths. The myths explained are not true and need to be told so the many people who get diagnosed with Hepatitis C can feel safe in the knowledge that they understand fact [...]

One of the issues when trying to bring the Hepatitis C virus under global control is how to test for it. In the underdeveloped countries of the world having the ability to take blood tests from thousands of people is not always that easy to come by. As well, these tests can only be taken [...]

 The Hepatitis C virus is a life threatening infection, and though it can take forty years before the progression of the disease reaches the life threatening stage a person with this disease wants to do everything they can to improve their health. Although not a standard treatment currently used in the United States, Europeans have [...]

Once the diagnosis of Hepatitis C has been made there are many things that need to be done. The first will be to begin a treatment program. This will be something that you will discuss with your health care provider. Equally as important as what drug therapy you should use, how high your viral load [...]

Expressing oneself can be an important part of the growing process. Not just as a teen that needs to find ways to let the world know who and what they are but as an adult searching for ways to show how you feel. There are many ways to do this self-expression, some write or draw. [...]

Hepatitis C is a particularly threatening strain of the hepatitis disease. While all types of hepatitis cause the body to experience some form of liver inflammation, hepatitis C is a particularly troublesome form of the disease. For one, no one is protected from hepatitis C as there has not been a vaccine created as of [...]

What is Hepatitis C?
Hepatitis C is a virus that can be passed by blood contact, the virus has no vaccine to protect a person against infection and it doesn’t show symptoms in eighty percent of infected people.
What are the symptoms?
The possible symptoms a person could suffer are
Fatigue – the feeling of being weary, tired or [...]

Did you know that there is an estimated 270 to 300 million infected people worldwide and 9 out of 10 people infected are not aware?
There are three types of Hepatitis, A, B and C. The Hepatitis C virus is a liver disease that causes inflammation; in fact the word Hepatitis is the Latin word for [...]

Hepatitis C is a virus caught by blood contact, it was found in the 1970’s and confirmed as Hepatitis C in the late 1980s. Hepatitis C damages the liver, the body’s largest organ by causing inflammation.
It is estimated that there are over 170 million sufferers in the world, yet many people don’t even know they [...]

The Hepatitis C virus is an infection that assaults a person’s liver causing damage that worsens over a ten to forty year period before the liver, no longer able to continue its fight, becomes seriously damaged. This liver damage is called cirrhosis. This liver damage, the scarring of cirrhosis, can also be caused by alcohol [...]

There is a wealth of information on Hepatitis C available but how can you be sure what is fact and what is fiction? Below you will find all the important facts about Hepatitis C.
Hepatitis C is a blood borne virus (a virus passed by blood to blood contact) and is one of 6 different types [...]