Hepatitis C: Who Should Get Screened People can live with hepatitis C without symptoms or feeling sick. Left untreated, hepatitis C can cause serious liver damage and even liver cancer. The good news is treatments can cure hepatitis C. Screening at Canyonlands Healthcare The CDC now recommends one-time hepatitis C testing of all adults (18…
The Rise of Alcohol Misuse in Women Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a medical condition characterized by an impaired ability to stop or control alcohol use despite adverse social, occupational, or health consequences. It encompasses the conditions that some people refer to as alcohol abuse, alcohol dependence, alcohol addiction, and the colloquial term, alcoholism. Alcohol…
New Vaccine Reports, Variants & Guidelines In the government’s first assessment of how the shots have been working beyond Pfizer and Moderna’s initial experiments, the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines are about 90% effective at preventing COVID-19 disease, especially severe illness and death. 100% Efficacy in Vaccine Trial for Adolescents Results from Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 clinical trial…
Federal Health Insurance Marketplace Reopens for COVID-19 Emergency February 15 – May 15, 2021 For people who have been without health insurance, you have a 3-month window to buy a Marketplace plan at healthcare.gov. In January, 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to open up the federal health insurance marketplace for three months…
Coronavirus Variants The arrival of new coronavirus variants mean you should try to cut back on potential exposures where you can and double down on basic precautions for the next few months until you and the people around you get vaccinated. The B.1.1.7 (UK) Variant Federal health officials have reported that a far more contagious…