The state has the highest mortality rate in the country but a move by the Oregon Health Authority to expand expensive treatment could wipe out the virus, if medical modeling is correct.
Dec 3, 2018
A survey of prisons across the country revealed that almost all infected inmates are not being treated for hepatitis C.
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JACOB KEARNS/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
State prisons across the U.S. are not treating nearly all infected inmates for hepatitis C, a deadly liver disease that is curable with new, expensive treatments.
The high cost of innovative new pharmaceutical drugs has health plans concerned about how to pay for the drugs and patient advocates worried that sick people may be prevented from getting the care they need.