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Horrific US Medical Experiments Come to Light

ATLANTA -- Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into...

More Veterans Exposed to Infections at VA Facilities

More veterans may have been exposed to serious infections such as HIV and hepatitis at VA facilities because of inadequately cleaned equipment. The Veterans Affairs Department has identified 12 more veterans who may have received colonoscopies with unsanitary equipment at a VA hospital in in Miami, officials said. In...

NY Christmas Day Parishioners Exposed to Hepatitis A

Hundreds of people may have been exposed to hepatitis A when they received Christmas Day communion at a Catholic church on New York's Long Island. Nassau County Health Department officials say anyone who attended the 10:30 a.m. or noon services at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Massapequa on Dec. 25 may have been exposed...

Arizona Budget Cuts Boot Patients From Transplant List

(Dec. 3) -- Anger is growing in Arizona after the state cut critical funding to low-income transplant patients and left dozens of gravely ill people scrambling to raise the funds for the lifesaving procedures on their own. Francisco Felix, who has hepatitis C, could have received the liver transplant he needs last week,...

Toddler Accidentally Pricked With Dirty Needles at Clinic

(Oct. 23) – A 2-year-old girl was given HIV drugs as a precaution after she was accidentally pricked by dirty needles during a routine trip to a health clinic. Nadia Maklad took her daughter, Hailey Rodriguez, to the clinic in the Bronx, N.Y., on Oct. 7 to get a minor skin problem checked out. While Maklad was...

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CDC To Baby Boomers: Get Tested For Hepatitis C

For the first time, health officials are proposing that all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis C.

THE HUFFINGTON POST

CDC Mulls Hepatitis C Testing For Boomers

So many baby boomers are infected with hepatitis C - and so few of them know it - that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may recommend everyone born between 1945 and 1965 be screened for the disease.

Background on hepatitis

Hepatitis (plural hepatitides) is a medical condition defined by the inflammation of the liver and characterized by the presence of inflammatory cells in the tissue of the organ.

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