Living

Editor's note: if you have any concerns or questions throughout your pregnancy, it is important to speak to your doctor. Pregnancy comes with a basketful of emotions: excitement, fear, stress, joy...

What do the flu, Covid-19, and hepatitis C have in common? What protective steps do you need to take if you have hepatitis C? The answers can help you make...

Which is more preferred: quality or quantity of treatment options? A delicate balance at times. Sometimes bigger is better, but sometimes less is more. All kidding aside, no, not all...

Finding out that your health insurance company has denied a claim can be frustrating and complicated. Your insurance company must provide you with the following pieces of information if it...

Getting diagnosed with hep C hit me like a ton of bricks. It would have hit even harder if I had known what hep C was. All I knew was...

As we are seeing a changing approach to dealing with the Covid pandemic, we are witnessing some new challenges in healthcare. The changes we see in the sector are not...

I have been thinking a lot about something lately. I’ve been wracking my brain, trying to understand not only how I feel about advocacy, but what it looks like for...

Having hepatitis c can be lonely and isolating. Once diagnosed, you do not do much except worry and fret about it.  It can consume thoughts of others and, more critically, thoughts...

Living with a stigmatized disease can significantly affect the quality of life and lead to loss of income, financial instability, housing insecurity, isolation, and depression. Stigma increases the disease burden...

I don’t know about all of you who were diagnosed with hep C, but I felt fear and dread about my diagnosis years ago. There was no joy in knowing...

When I was diagnosed with hepatitis C, one of the first questions I asked was, “What should I eat with hepatitis C?” A healthy diet is a proactive step in...

The liver is the powerhouse organ of the body that performs over 500 vital life-sustaining functions. We cannot live without a liver. Hepatitis C is caused by the hepatitis C...

After getting cured of hep C, I thought the battle was over. Sadly, my liver was damaged from years of living with the virus. I ended up needing a liver...

In Canada, we will soon observe the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a new statutory holiday to honor the Indigenous children forced to attend residential schools. The holiday aims...

Have you ever wondered how drugs get their unique and sometimes rather strange-sounding names? Or noticed the patterns some generic drug names seem to follow? If you have, you would...

The death of Naomi Judd brought to light the number of famous people with hepatitis C. It is important to note that Naomi Judd did not die due to her...

How we prepare our food is just as important as what the food is. What we eat, how it is prepared, and how much we eat is part of a...

Your pharmacist may be an overlooked healthcare team member, but they shouldn’t be. Especially if you are living with hepatitis C. One of the liver's jobs is to break down...

Are you ever somewhere and a song comes on, and you immediately connect to it? The rawness of emotions is tied to it, whether the beat of the music or the...

Everything you consume, eat, breathe, and are exposed to passes through your liver. One of the functions of the liver is to filter and break down all the body consumes...