Outsourcing and Subcontracting at Colleges and Universities: What You Need to Know. Many colleges and universities across the country are outsourcing or subcontracting, to private companies, various institutional functions and services in an effort to cut costs, and/or improve efficiency.
Hepatitis C, which afflicts some 150 million people globally, often without symptoms for years, can cause fatigue and fever, cirrhosis or liver cancer. The pill, known as Sovaldi, or generically as sofosbuvir, costs $84,000 for a standard 12-week course of treatment.
If you are diagnosed with chronic hepatitis C, your doctor may recommend taking a combination of medicines to try to prevent the virus from harming your liver. These antiviral medicines are called interferon and ribavirin. Treatment with this combo usually lasts between 24 and 48 weeks.