Panel: Hepatitis: New battle lines in war on silent killer (Health Journalism 2012)
Speaker: John Ward, M.D., director, Viral Hepatitis Program, CDC
Panel description: More Americans are dying from hepatitis C, a chronic liver infection, than AIDS these days. More than 3 million people in the country have chronic hepatitis C infections, but most don’t know it. The infection can lurk for years without a person feeling sick. But the condition can eventually cause liver damage and even liver failure. We’ll take a look at why hepatitis C has become such a problem, interventions to help curb it, and the range of treatments now available, including liver transplant and some costly new drugs.
