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ATLANTA -- 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 ...

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 ...

In an update of its 2004 recommendations, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) now recommends a one-time screening for the hepatitis C virus (HCV) for all adults born between 1945 and 1965, ...

The Damien Center in Indiana is now using the Cepheid GeneXpert system to detect active hepatitis C infection in an hour, and ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending all U.S. baby boomers get a one-time test for the hepatitis C virus, according to a news release. The final recommendations were ...