170 million Estimated number of people around the world who have a chronic hepatitis C infection ...more

August 17, 2009

Scientists say they've found a reason why treatment for chronic hepatitis C infection works better for whites than for African-Americans. It's a tiny variation in a gene. ...more

August 17, 2009

10,000 Number of former Veterans Affairs patients, some who had colonoscopies as long ago as 2003, advised to get follow-up blood tests for HIV and hepatitis ...more

June 15, 2009

The Department of Veterans Affairs says a second patient exposed to dirty equipment at its hospital in Miami has tested positive for HIV. ...more

April 24, 2009

The Department of Veterans Affairs says three patients exposed to contaminated medical equipment have now tested positive for HIV. ...more

April 17, 2009

A Tampa man is suing two police officers, claiming that he was falsely arrested and battered after he was escorted out of a public meeting four years ago, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in circuit court. ...more

December 10, 2008

James Earl Jones, who has voiced some of entertainment's most memorable characters, will receive the 2008 Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. ...more

October 4, 2008

Katie Holmes made her Broadway debut in "All My Sons," and her husband Tom Cruise thought it was a knockout. ...more

September 20, 2008

Tony Calderon believes in God's power to heal. It was Christ's love, not medicine, that relieved him of severe back pain, he told friends at Faith Life Church. ...more

September 10, 2008

It's not self-mythologizing if it really happened. Alejandro Escovedo may have been alternative rock's Zelig for years, barely noticed as he morphed from punk to alt-cowboy to college rock road dog. ...more

July 31, 2008