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Dr. Ardis Hoven “C of Hepatitis” show

Health Matters Radio Show
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Dr. Hoven is a UK professor of Infectious Diseases, and former president of the American Medical Association. Her work in infectious diseases and her concern that her HIV-AIDS patients were unable to access the healthcare system led her into organized medicine and into the AMA. There, she rapidly rose to a leadership position, taking office just as the Affordable Care Act was being rolled out. Enjoy her experiences and her expertise as we talk about hepatitis C in rural Kentucky.

Tip:  Hepatitis C is primarily spread by dirty needles. There is no vaccine, but there is a cure, which entails a prolonged course of expensive medicines. The only cost-effective way to manage this problem is to prevent it from happening in the first place.

Links:

A thoughtful article from STAT News on Kentucky's hepatitis C problem

Statistics hepatitis in Kentucky

CDC on hepatitis in young Kentucky women

Greg Jenkins has been the Operations Director at MSPR since 1999. Greg is a 1996 graduate of Morehead State University with a BME in Music Education and received a Masters of Science in Industrial Technology in 2008. Greg oversees training, scheduling, and evaluation of the student board operator staff, preparation of the daily traffic logs and serves as weekday classical music host. He is also the webmaster of the MSPR website and maintains MSPR's webstreaming and podcasting.