How To Stay Healthy When You Have Hepatitis C
First, one key thing to remember: Hepatitis C is a disease that’s actually curable. The treatments that are currently used to treat Hepatitis C infections, which are called direct-acting antivirals, are more than 90% effective—and some put the cure rate between 95% and 99%. “There are not that many diseases that we can say, ‘we will cure you in eight to 12 weeks,’” says Su Wang, MD, Su Wang, medical director for the Viral Hepatitis Programs at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center and a former president of the board of directors of the World Hepatitis Alliance....