Hepatitis C Stocks List

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Hepatitis C Stocks Recent News

Date Stock Title
Mar 27 UTHR United Therapeutics Corp (UTHR) CEO Martine Rothblatt Sells 30,000 Shares
Mar 27 BMY Bristol Myers Squibb (BMY) Rises Higher Than Market: Key Facts
Mar 27 ABBV AbbVie: An Undervalued Giant
Mar 26 INO INOVIO to Participate in The Citizens JMP Novel Therapeutics Forum at Penn Medicine
Mar 26 ABBV AbbVie (ABBV) to Buy Landos to Strengthen Autoimmune Portfolio
Mar 26 UTHR United Therapeutics' Robust Portfolio Fuels Double-Digit Growth
Mar 26 BMY 20 Countries with the Highest Heart Disease Deaths Per Capita
Mar 26 UTHR United Therapeutics Announces the First Comprehensive Review Publication on Xenotransplantation
Mar 26 BMY Bristol Myers Squibb Expands Health Equity Grant Initiatives to Improve Health Outcomes
Mar 26 ABBV 20 Cloudiest Cities in the U.S., Ranked
Mar 25 UTHR Insider Sell: United Therapeutics Corp (UTHR) Chairperson & CEO Martine Rothblatt Sells ...
Mar 25 VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX) Rises As Market Takes a Dip: Key Facts
Mar 25 ABBV AbbVie (ABBV) Advances While Market Declines: Some Information for Investors
Mar 25 VRTX If You Invested $100 In This Stock 20 Years Ago, You Would Have $4,400 Today
Mar 25 ABBV Why Is Ulcerative Colitis-Focused Landos Biopharma Stock Trading Higher On Monday?
Mar 25 ABBV 30 Countries with Highest Proportion of Older Adults
Mar 25 ABBV Why AbbVie (ABBV) is a Great Dividend Stock Right Now
Mar 25 ABBV Landos shares rocket 170% on AbbVie takeover deal
Mar 25 ABBV Allergan Aesthetics Launches "Moving the Needle on Ethics" to Elevate the Conversation Around Ethics in Aesthetics
Mar 25 VRTX Vertex (VRTX) Continues to Diversify Beyond CF Franchise
Hepatitis C

Hepatitis C is an infectious disease caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV) that primarily affects the liver. During the initial infection people often have mild or no symptoms. Occasionally a fever, dark urine, abdominal pain, and yellow tinged skin occurs. The virus persists in the liver in about 75% to 85% of those initially infected. Early on chronic infection typically has no symptoms. Over many years however, it often leads to liver disease and occasionally cirrhosis. In some cases, those with cirrhosis will develop complications such as liver failure, liver cancer, or dilated blood vessels in the esophagus and stomach.HCV is spread primarily by blood-to-blood contact associated with intravenous drug use, poorly sterilized medical equipment, needlestick injuries in healthcare, and transfusions. Using blood screening, the risk from a transfusion is less than one per two million. It may also be spread from an infected mother to her baby during birth. It is not spread by superficial contact. It is one of five known hepatitis viruses: A, B, C, D, and E. Diagnosis is by blood testing to look for either antibodies to the virus or its RNA. Testing is recommended in all people who are at risk.There is no vaccine against hepatitis C. Prevention includes harm reduction efforts among people who use intravenous drugs and testing donated blood. Chronic infection can be cured about 95% of the time with antiviral medications such as sofosbuvir or simeprevir. Peginterferon and ribavirin were earlier generation treatments that had a cure rate of less than 50% and greater side effects. Getting access to the newer treatments however can be expensive. Those who develop cirrhosis or liver cancer may require a liver transplant. Hepatitis C is the leading reason for liver transplantation, though the virus usually recurs after transplantation.An estimated 143 million people (2%) worldwide are infected with hepatitis C as of 2015. In 2013 about 11 million new cases occurred. It occurs most commonly in Africa and Central and East Asia. About 167,000 deaths due to liver cancer and 326,000 deaths due to cirrhosis occurred in 2015 due to hepatitis C. The existence of hepatitis C – originally identifiable only as a type of non-A non-B hepatitis – was suggested in the 1970s and proven in 1989. Hepatitis C infects only humans and chimpanzees.

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