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CONFIRMED: New Drug HIGHLY EFFECTIVE in Treating/Curing Hepatitis C Infection

 
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CONFIRMED: New Drug HIGHLY EFFECTIVE in Treating/Curing Hepatitis C Infection
The recently approved drug Incivek, combined with two standard drugs, is highly effective at treating hepatitis C, a notoriously difficult-to-manage liver disease, two new studies show.

The drug works not only in patients just starting treatment, but in those who failed earlier treatment, the research found.

Incivek (telaprevir) was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in May and is the second drug in a class of drugs called protease inhibitors to be approved to fight hepatitis C.

The other drug, called Victrelis (boceprevir), was also approved in May.

"We have entered a new era of therapy for hepatitis C, which enables us to cure many more patients than we could before," said Dr. Ira M. Jacobson, from Weill Cornell Medical College in NYC.

"These drugs represent a real milestone in the treatment of this disease," said lead researcher Dr. Stefan Zeuzem, a professor of medicine at J.W. Goethe University Hospital in Frankfurt, Germany.

"There were very limited treatment options in the past, but now many patients have excellent chances to be cured, even if they already have advanced disease," he said.

Reports were published in the June 23 online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.

[link to www.mhcinc.org]
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Re: CONFIRMED: New Drug HIGHLY EFFECTIVE in Treating/Curing Hepatitis C Infection
side effect is it probly kills you
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Re: CONFIRMED: New Drug HIGHLY EFFECTIVE in Treating/Curing Hepatitis C Infection
side effect is it probly kills you
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Or brainwashes you so much you`ll probably want to kill yourself (Or someone else).
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Re: CONFIRMED: New Drug HIGHLY EFFECTIVE in Treating/Curing Hepatitis C Infection
Nano bots, 666?
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Re: CONFIRMED: New Drug HIGHLY EFFECTIVE in Treating/Curing Hepatitis C Infection
side effect is it probly kills you
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 412689

Maybe so. But for those who have the infection (I do not) this may come as a bit of welcome news.

Of further note, the article goes on to say that this is leading to anti-virals with fewer 'side effects'.
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