Saturday, 31 August 2013

New drug combo helps hard-to-treat hepatitis C Journal of the American Medical Association, the Center for Liver Diseases at the University of Miami

Combining an old drug with an experimental one may cure many cases of hard-to-treat hepatitis C — without the harsh side effects of the standard regimen, a U.S. government study finds.

Experts said the study, reported in the Aug. 28 Journal of the American Medical Association, is an important research step. It focused on patients who often do not respond well to the current hepatitis C drug regimen because they already had liver damage, harbored a particularly stubborn strain of the virus

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