Hepatitis

The majority of people housed at the Medium Security Institution in St. Louis do not have air conditioning. (July 19, 2017)

St. Louis Inmates To Receive Hepatitis A Vaccines Amid National Outbreak

Sarah Fentem

The St. Louis Department of Health and Division of Corrections are vaccinating 800 people at the city’s two jails to prevent a national hepatitis A…

Express Scripts Chief Medical Officer, Steve Miller, at company headquarters in St. Louis.

Health, Science & Environment

Express Scripts uses clout to reduce cost of $1,000-per-day hepatitis treatment

When two new drugs for hepatitis C hit the market, they were a game-changer. About 95 percent of hepatitis C patients can be cured with either Harvoni or…

Government, Politics & Issues

After hepatitis outbreak in Nevada, outpatient surgical facilities face stricter scrutiny

Robert Joiner

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Feb. 10, 2010 - A hepatitis outbreak traced to ambulatory surgical center practices in the state of…

Health, Science & Environment

Doctors, researchers confront a silent disease: Hepatitis C

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Feb. 4, 2009 - An unmistakable shroud of silence surrounds Hepatitis C, a viral liver disease that…