How to Use hepatitis C in a Sentence

hepatitis C

noun
  • The insurance plan paid for her hepatitis C treatment, and she is now cured of the viral disease.
    Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The first drugs that could cure hepatitis C came on the market in 2013.
    Andy Marso, kansascity, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The move was aimed to help fill the hole left by slowing sales of Gilead’s hepatitis C drugs.
    Joseph Walker, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2018
  • Now, hepatitis C can be cured 95% of the time with pills in as little as eight weeks.
    John Whyte, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Gilead, in particular, has been in the crosshairs over the years for the prices of its HIV and hepatitis C medicines.
    Ed Silverman, STAT, 5 May 2020
  • That was the case for William Glover-Bey, who was diagnosed with hepatitis C in 1992.
    Jon Lapook, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Some had contracted hepatitis C, which is spread the same way as HIV.
    Erin Schumaker, ABC News, 30 June 2021
  • When the treatment ended in December 2009, my blood tests showed no signs of the hepatitis C virus.
    Michael Ninburg, STAT, 15 Nov. 2019
  • In 2014, an outbreak of HIV and hepatitis C in rural parts of the state led to a public health emergency.
    Emma Colton, Washington Examiner, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Those standards now call for using the hepatitis C drugs.
    Rebecca Boone, idahostatesman, 18 Jan. 2018
  • There are more than 1,000 cases of hepatitis C in Gaza and the numbers are increasing.
    NBC News, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Sub-licensing is now used for about 30 H.I.V. and hepatitis C drugs.
    New York Times, 24 June 2019
  • The Penn doctors say using organs with hepatitis C could help close that gap.
    Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, 26 Oct. 2017
  • For states, a wake-up call came about five years ago, when a breakthrough drug for hepatitis C, Sovaldi, hit the market.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The company’s big break came in 2011 with the approval of Incivek, a hepatitis C treatment.
    Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Having hepatitis C may very well have saved Jennifer Zeng’s life.
    Fox News, 27 Oct. 2019
  • The past three years have seen a fourfold increase in hepatitis C and a slight uptick in HIV related to injection drug use.
    Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 17 Dec. 2017
  • That’d be a classic move against a virus—HIV typically gets a three-drug combo, and hepatitis C gets two.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The rates are a bit better for hepatitis C, with less success in sub-Saharan African countries.
    Danjuma Adda, STAT, 16 June 2024
  • Most people who have hepatitis C won’t have symptoms for years if ever.
    Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The hepatitis C virus is spread through contact with blood from an infected person.
    Mike Stobbe, ajc, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The path Saddler took was an attempt to curb a raging hepatitis C caseload, which had emerged as a direct result of the heroin crisis.
    Terry Demio, The Enquirer, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Syringe programs halve the spread of H.I.V. and hepatitis C; naloxone, when distributed to users and their peers, can cut overdose deaths by more than forty per cent.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Minot had the worst recent outbreak of hepatitis C in the country, and getting that under control had taken years.
    Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
  • By the time Jaenisch's case was cured at age 31, the landscape of hepatitis C treatment had changed dramatically.
    Michelle Andrews, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Protease inhibitors are used to treat other viral pathogens, like hepatitis C and HIV.
    Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 29 Apr. 2021
  • One ornament for $25 can help purchase HIV and hepatitis C kits.
    Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Japanese doctors have used it for the last couple decades to treat some chronic hepatitis C patients, for one thing.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2017
  • People with chronic hepatitis C can often have no symptoms and don’t feel sick.
    Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Oct. 2022
  • There are at least 80 million people worldwide who are infected with the hepatitis C virus, which can lead to liver cirrhosis, liver failure, and cancer if left untreated.
    Sarah Asrar, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2016

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