Most American adults need to be checked for hepatitis C, say guidelines released Monday that urge millions more people to get screened for the liver-damaging virus that can fester for decades. The call for expanded screening for Americans ages 18 ...

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Missouri prison officials have authorized treatment of only 15 of the 4,590 Missouri prison inmates who have been diagnosed with chronic hepatitis C, according to a motion filed by the American Civil Liberties Union this past week. The ACLU is ...

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Missouri prison officials have authorized treatment of only 15 of the 4,590 Missouri prison inmates who have been diagnosed with chronic hepatitis C, according to a motion filed by the American Civil Liberties Union this past week. The ACLU is ...

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Missouri prisoners who allege the state failed to adequately screen and treat their chronic Hepatitis C will be able to proceed as a class in their lawsuit against the Missouri Department of Corrections as a result of a Dec. 6 ruling.

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