The Community Liver Alliance (CLA) brands itself as an organization dedicated to global awareness and local impact. Even as the CLA has extended its beacon of hope to communities nationwide, the nonprofit still counts its hometown of Pittsburgh as its primary link to liver disease patients, providers, and caregivers. CLA’s…more.
Last year, the Global Liver Institute (GLI) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced a partnership to improve the lives of Veterans with liver disease. Through the collaboration, VA and GLI are providing educational materials and webinars to help increase Veteran awareness of liver disease, increase health care engagement…more.
An estimated 100 million Americans have a fatty liver, and most don’t know it. Twenty million of them will develop liver fibrosis disease or Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) and 5 million will progress to liver cirrhosis or Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatohepatitis (MASH). Wayne Eskridge didn’t even know what fatty…more.
Read or hear the words “liver disease” and most people probably think of alcohol-associated liver disease: the fatty liver, hepatitis and cirrhosis that can develop among people who drink excessively, usually over a long period of time. But did you know there are serious liver diseases that are not linked…more.
As of January 2023, all Medicare-covered vaccines are available for free to Medicare beneficiaries. This means beneficiaries are not responsible for any cost-sharing, such as copayment, coinsurance, or deductibles for covered vaccines. One vaccine covered under the Medicare rule is the hepatitis B vaccine. Hepatitis B is a vaccine-preventable liver…more.
In August, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a sobering report: Only one in three people with health insurance receive timely treatment for their hepatitis C. The figure is even lower for people covered by Medicare: nearly three in four (72 percent) are not treated. What happens…more.
Viral hepatitis is a serious, preventable public health threat that puts people who are infected at increased risk for liver disease, cancer and death. The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for a 90 percent reduction in new hepatitis infections and a 65 percent reduction in deaths by 2030. Unfortunately,…more.
Warren Hall has grown accustomed to the fear and trepidation in the voices of people who have been diagnosed with hepatitis C. As National Manager of Support Services for the American Liver Foundation (ALF), Hall regularly speaks with callers to the ALF helpline and participates in live chat sessions to…more.
I remember the first time I was tested for hepatitis C virus (HCV). It was shortly after I tested HIV positive in 1992. I found out I was living with HIV the day after my 22nd birthday. After the initial shock, I soon started seeing an HIV specialist for my…more.
This month, Real World Health Care focuses on Hepatitis C, a viral disease that affects 2.4 million people in the U.S. and infects about 50,300 new people each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). For some, hepatitis C is a mild illness lasting a few…more.
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