All baby boomers should get a one-time blood test to learn if they have the liver-destroying hepatitis C virus, U.S. health officials said Thursday. It can take decades for the blood-borne virus to ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Monday, July 28, is World Hepatitis Day and the South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) wants you to join in the observance and get tested for for the virus at a local DPH ...

More than 15,000 Americans per year die from hepatitis C and most of them are in the baby boomer generation. That's why the federal government is recommending that anyone born from 1945 to 1965 get a ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced it is issuing draft guidelines proposing that all U.S. baby boomers — defined as individuals born from 1945 to 1965 — get a one-time test for ...

It’s true. Both the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that all baby boomers – people born from 1945 through 1965 – get a hepatitis ...

Anyone born from 1945 to 1965 should get a one-time blood test to see if they have the liver-destroying virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in draft recommendations issued ...