{"id":147,"date":"2016-10-31T19:28:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T19:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2016-10-31T20:01:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T20:01:16","slug":"prof-marion-winik-writes-about-new-hope-for-baby-boomers-infected-with-hepatitis-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/2016\/10\/31\/prof-marion-winik-writes-about-new-hope-for-baby-boomers-infected-with-hepatitis-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Marion Winik writes about new hope for baby boomers infected with Hepatitis C"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_149\" style=\"width: 278px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/381\/2016\/10\/Winik.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149\" class=\"wp-image-149\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/381\/2016\/10\/Winik.jpg\" alt=\"winik\" width=\"268\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marion Winik teaches in the Klein Family School of Communications Design. She&#8217;s an author, a longtime NPR commentator and writes a monthly column at BaltimoreFishbowl.com.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a new piece for Salon.com, Assistant Professor <strong>Marion Winik<\/strong> shares the latest developments in the testing and treatment of Hepatitis C through her own personal experience with the once elusive infection.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/10\/30\/dating-after-hepatitis-c-hope-on-the-horizon-for-the-1-in-30-boomers-estimated-to-be-infected\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cDating after Hepatitis C: Hope on the horizon for the 1 in 30 boomers estimated to be infected\u201d<\/a> Winik says that when she tested positive for Hepatitis C more than two decades ago, there was little known about the infection and treatments at that time were not very good. She went for years without any symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made it all the way to 2011, and then the outlandishly good health I had enjoyed all my life started to crumble,\u201d said Winik. \u201cI was exhausted. My blood counts plummeted and my spleen swelled to three times its normal size.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Winik sought treatment at Johns Hopkins in early 2012, where new and radically more effective drugs for Hepatitis C were being studied and prescribed. After several weeks of treatment, she was finally cured of the disease, but she battled a range of side effects in the year ahead. Fortunately, she was among\u00a0the last patients to experience those nasty side effects. Winik says today\u00a0the drugs available for Hepatitis C have a 96 percent cure rate, and few people report side effects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/10\/30\/watch-marion-winik-on-the-stigma-of-hepatitis-c-which-could-be-fatal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch Salon.com editor and UB lecturer D. Watkins&#8217; interview with Winik on the stigma of Hepatitis C.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubalt.edu\/cas\/faculty\/alphabetical-directory\/marion-winik.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more about Assistant Professor Marion Winik.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new piece for Salon.com, Assistant Professor Marion Winik shares the latest developments in the testing and treatment of Hepatitis C through her own personal experience with the once elusive infection. In \u201cDating after Hepatitis C: Hope on the horizon for the 1 in 30 boomers estimated to be infected\u201d Winik says that when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}