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EPISODE · Jan 14, 2015 · 16 MIN

Is the Hep C screening expansion justified?

from Medicine and Science from The BMJ · host The BMJ

Until recently, hepatitis C screening was offered to people at increased risk of infection - such as intravenous drug users - but now, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended screening all people born between 1945 and 1965. Kenny Lin, associate professor of family medicine at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and Jeanne Lenzer, an investigative health journalist from New York, explain why they worry that the evidence doesn't support this expansion. ead their analysis article: http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.g7809

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