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Is the Hep C screening expansion justified?

Is the Hep C screening expansion justified?

Medicine and Science from The BMJ

January 14, 201516m 27s

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Show Notes

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