Living Healthy with Hepatitis C: Natural and Conventional Approaches to Recover Your Quality of Life

by Harriet A. Washington, Stephen J. Bock (Foreword)

As many as four million Americans suffer from the hepatitis C virus (HCV), but most don't even know they're infected. Here at last is the unprecedented book that smashes the myths about the disease as it offers authoritative, lifesaving information you won't find anywhere else. Living Healthy with Hepatitis C is your ultimate weapon against the biggest killer of fear. Discover new hope and help in its pages as you learn a comprehensive approach that puts you back in control of your life!Protect yourself from acquiring HCVProtect your loved ones from contracting it if you are infectedBenefit from the latest medical treatments, including interferon, ribavirin, and other drugsLearn the pros and cons of alternative treatments, including herbs, supplements, and acupunctureUse diet, lifestyle, and exercise as potent weapons against HCVAvoid its worst consequences, including cancer and liver failureUnderstand HCV, the medical treatments, lab tests, clinical trials, and much moreTake advantage of the latest breakthroughs, including a possible "magic bullet" leading to a curePLUS extensive resources, including books, organizations, websites, periodicals, and more

288 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 7, 2000

About the author

Harriet Washington is the author of Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself and of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, which won the 2007 National Book Critics’ Circle Award and was named one of the year’s Best Books by Publishers’ Weekly. She has won many other awards for her work on medicine and ethics and has been a Research Fellow in Ethics at Harvard Medical School, a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, a Knight Fellow at Stanford University, a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University and a Visiting Scholar at the DePaul University College of Law.