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.
Cure rates approached 100% after 6 months of treatment in patients whose hep C was harder to treat, often because their livers had already been scarred by the disease, a condition called cirrhosis. The drug is approved to treat chronic hepatitis C genotype 1, the most common type of infection.