Federal Task Force Recommends One-Time HCV Screening For All Baby Boomers

The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force recommends a one-time hepatitis C screening for all baby boomers, an expansion of the group’s previous recommendations.

The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force issued final recommendations June 25 that all individuals born between 1945 and 1965 undergo a one-time hepatitis C virus screening, a major expansion from the group’s previous policy.

The group’s latest recommendations, published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine, closely track those issued in August 2012 by...

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