TUESDAY, July 22 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with hepatitis C who receive a liver from a donor over age 60 aren't at an increased risk for transplant failure, death or recurrent disease within five years after transplantation, say researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine, in St. Louis.

They analyzed data from 489 adults who had liver transplants at the school between 1997 and 2006. Of those patients, 187 (38.2 percent) had hepatitis C and 302 (61.8 percent) had other indications for liver transplant.

By Shannon Koehle
EmpowHer Health Report

Developing one’s body into a canvas for expression, a memorial, or a work of art, tattoos have become increasingly fashionable.

However, it is also a trend linked to numerous health risks.

Slowly disassociating itself from negative perceptions, the Center for Disease Control has assisted this process. As the CDC says, “No cases of HIV transmission through tattooing in the United States” has ever been reported since data collection began in 1985.

Health care workers at a Las Vegas endoscopy clinic linked to more than 80 cases of hepatitis C routinely mishandled injection equipment and medication vials and often failed to perform basic hand hygiene, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday.

Health officials have identified at least 85 people treated at two Las Vegas area outpatient clinics over a four year period as having contracted hepatitis C, the Associated Press reported.

Nevada health officials said Thursday that they had identified 77 new cases of hepatitis C among patients treated at a Las Vegas endoscopy practice, in one of the country’s largest outbreaks of the liver disease.

The officials had previously identified seven cases of the disease linked to the gastroenterology practice, one of the largest in southern Nevada, and a single case in one of the practice’s sister clinics. The infections were caused, they said, by the reuse of anesthesia syringes among multiple patients.