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Demon in My Blood: My Fight with Hep C - and a Miracle Cure (Hepatitis C)
Elizabeth Rains
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Description for Demon in My Blood: My Fight with Hep C - and a Miracle Cure (Hepatitis C)
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: VFD; VFJB. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Until recently, hepatitis C--which infects 170 million people throughout the world--was always fatal. But today there is finally a remarkable cure. Elizabeth Rains describes how she was likely infected with hepatitis C during her wild hippie days, how she was diagnosed more than four decades later, and how she became one of the early patients to be cured, including the obstacles she encountered in gaining access to the $100,000 drugs. She describes the symptoms--and non-symptoms--of hep C, the stigma that still accompanies a diagnosis, the grueling interferon treatments that many hep C patients have had to undergo, and the new ... Read more
Until recently, hepatitis C--which infects 170 million people throughout the world--was always fatal. But today there is finally a remarkable cure. Elizabeth Rains describes how she was likely infected with hepatitis C during her wild hippie days, how she was diagnosed more than four decades later, and how she became one of the early patients to be cured, including the obstacles she encountered in gaining access to the $100,000 drugs. She describes the symptoms--and non-symptoms--of hep C, the stigma that still accompanies a diagnosis, the grueling interferon treatments that many hep C patients have had to undergo, and the new ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Greystone Books,Canada
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
335g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, Canada
ISBN
9781771641708
SKU
V9781771641708
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99-15
About Elizabeth Rains
Elizabeth Rains holds a masters degree in journalism and teaches university courses in writing and editing. She regularly writes feature articles for magazines and newspapers in North America
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