Hepatitis A - What It Is, Where It Lives

Hepatitis A is the lesser-known cousin of B and C. But its obscurity makes it far more common a disease than it might be if we took simple preventive measures to keep it at bay.
One year ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) presented new recommendations as part […]

Traveler Beware! Hepatitis A & B Await

An alarming number of US travelers are not well enough informed about the risk of getting hepatitis A and B and can unknowingly expose themselves to these diseases, according to a recent survey of over 6,000 US travelers. Nearly 75% of those who responded had not asked for advice from their healthcare providers before departing, […]

Study Shows Hepatitis C Can Be Cured if Caught Early

Hepatitis C is a viral condition that kills as many as 10,000 people in the United States every year. Insidiously, its initial symptoms are mild and flu-like–loss of appetite and muscle aches–and can take weeks to appear. As time goes on, however, in some cases, the virus hardens and scars the liver (cirrhosis) or leads […]