*

 The appellees have notified this court that they will not file a brief in this

appeal due to lack of service in the district court. After an examination of the

appellant’s brief and the record, we have concluded that oral argument is unnecessary.

Thus, the appeal is submitted on the appellant’s brief and the record. See Fed. R. App.

P. 34(a)(2).

United States Court of Appeals

For the Seventh Circuit

Chicago, Illinois 60604

Submitted May 31, 2006*

Decided June 14, 2006

Before

 Hon. TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge

 Hon. ANN CLAIRE WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge

 Hon. DIANE S. SYKES, Circuit Judge

No. 05-2402

ANTHONY T. BLUE,

Plaintiff-Appellant,

v.

RONALD K. MALONE, et al.,

Defendants-Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District

Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

No. 05-C-259

Charles N. Clevert, Jr.,

Judge.

O R D E R

Wisconsin inmate Anthony Blue filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming

that prison medical staff were deliberately indifferent to his medical needs. The

district court screened the complaint under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A, and dismissed his

claims. We affirm.

UNPUBLISHED ORDER

Not to be cited per Circuit Rule 53
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We accept the allegations in Blue’s complaint as true and construe them in

the light most favorable to him. See Westefer v. Snyder, 422 F.3d 570, 574 (7th Cir.

2005). Upon his arrival at the Milwaukee County Jail, he reported to a nurse that

he suffered from “high blood pressure, bad liver . . . as well as arthritis, and a bad

hygenies [sic.] problem, with stomach pain, from the bad liver, ‘HEP. C!’” But while

there, he “never got ‘any’ medical help what-so ever.” Within a month he was

transferred to the Milwaukee County House of Corrections (HOC), and reported to

nursing staff there that he had “high blood pressure, bad liver, and . . . back

problems.” A few days later he was seen by their medical staff because he

complained that he was “seeing little lights” and had a “bad headache.” His blood

pressure was “around or about” 170 over 110. Nurses provided Blue with

medication for his blood pressure and Zantac for his stomach problems. 

Nevertheless, he complained that the prison medical staff “cause me harm” and

“refuse me the medical help needed,” and he asked the district court to allow him to

“get my liver meds.”

The district court dismissed his complaint, concluding that Blue’s allegations

did not state a claim under the Eighth Amendment. The court noted that Blue had

been “seen and treated” by HOC medical staff on “multiple occasions.” The court

added that Blue’s allegations expressing dissatisfaction with his treatment did not

state a cognizable claim of deliberate indifference.

On appeal Blue generally restates the allegations in his complaint that the

prison’s medical service providers were deliberately indifferent to “his serious

medical needs.”

To state an Eighth Amendment violation based on the denial of proper

medical treatment, Blue must allege that he had an objectively serious medical

need, Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97, 106 (1976), and that the defendants ignored

that need, Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 834 (1994); Greeno v. Daley, 414 F.3d

645, 652-53 (7th Cir. 2005). Deliberate indifference occurs when a prison official

consciously disregards a known risk to the health or safety of an inmate. Palmer v.

Marion Co., 327 F.3d 588, 593 (7th Cir. 2003). Our review is de novo. Marshall v.

Knight, No. 04-1062, 2006 WL 1084267, *2 (7th Cir. Apr. 26, 2006). We will affirm

the district court’s dismissal if it appears beyond a doubt that Blue can prove no set

of facts that would entitle him to relief. Id.

We agree with the district court that Blue failed to state a claim for an

Eighth Amendment violation. First Blue pleaded himself out of court by alleging

that his high blood pressure and stomach aches were treated by the prison nurses. 

See Ciarpaglini v. Saini, 352 F.3d 328, 331 (7th Cir. 2003). And although Blue

alleged that he informed the medical staff at the Milwaukee County Jail and the
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HOC of his hepatitis C and liver condition, he did not allege that medical staff

ignored this condition. Blue’s complaint thus falls short of federal notice pleading

rules, which require the plaintiff to allege enough to put the defendants on notice of

the claim and enable them to respond. See McElroy v. Lopac, 403 F.3d 855, 858

(7th Cir. 2005). Further, his generally-worded brief on appeal does not develop any

argument related to the denial of medication for either hepatitis C or a bad liver.

AFFIRMED.