Costs pose hurdle for promising new hepatitis C lab test

A new rapid test for hepatitis C could help identify many more patients who could be cured of the deadly disease, but its use ...

How access to new hepatitis C test could come down to insurance reimbursement

Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a rapid test that quickly detects hepatitis C, but insurance ...
clinicaladvisor.com

CDC Shuts Down Key Labs for Hepatitis and STI Testing After Layoffs

These labs perform advanced disease testing and analysis on hepatitis to understand how it spreads, as well as track infections like chlamydia, syphilis, and gonorrhea. HealthDay News — Key labs at ...
Medscape

Hepatitis Testing, Guidance, on Hold as Labs Close

The closure of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Division of Viral Hepatitis in the wake of the administration’s restructuring of the Department of Health and Human Services ...
WFMZ-TV

New 15-Minute Test For Hepatitis C Paves Way For Same-Day Treatment

A new rapid test for hepatitis C delivers results within 15 minutes This would allow doctors to diagnose patients during an office visit and get treatment started immediately Rapid test results agreed ...
FierceBiotech

FDA clears its first fingerstick hepatitis C diagnostic, enabling test-to-treat approach

The FDA has greenlit its first point-of-care diagnostic test for hepatitis C, capable of using only a fingerstick blood sample, in a bid to quickly connect patients with antiviral drugs. “Despite the ...
Iowa Public Radio

In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could help

After people started testing positive for hepatitis C in a coastal Florida town in December, state officials collected blood from patients, wrapped their specimens in dry ice and mailed them straight ...
New Atlas

15-minute hep-C test makes same-day treatment possible

Hepatitis C is a tiny virus with a significant impact. It's a small RNA virus that spreads through the blood and infects the liver. Even though today's medicines can cure it, hepatitis C remains a ...
Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Hawaii Health Department partners with local labs to expand hepatitis C testing

The Hawaii Department of Health says it is partnering with local laboratories to expand testing for hepatitis C, a liver infection caused by the hepatitis C virus. Currently, hepatitis C is screened ...
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RFK Jr.’s cuts to CDC eliminate labs tracking STIs, hepatitis outbreaks

Lab scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had been analyzing blood samples for weeks to determine how dozens of patients across six states had become infected with viral ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

CDC Shuts Down Key Labs for Hepatitis and STI Testing After Layoffs

All the scientists were fired from the only STI lab in the US that tested how well antibiotics were working against drug-resistant gonorrhea strains. HealthDay News — Key labs at the US Centers for ...