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Data Support First Approved Treatment for Acute Hepatitis C
Glecaprevir/pibrentasvir cleared infection in nearly all patients in a global phase IIIb s ...
Harriet Callahan was caught completely by surprise. While visiting a doctor for arthritis a few years ago, a routine blood test revealed she had hepatitis C, one of the deadliest infectious diseases ...
The hepatitis C virus—HCV—can persist in the livers of those infected and even lead to liver disease or failure in extreme ...
In 2005, Nick Voyles was diagnosed with hepatitis C after being released from five years of incarceration. A nurse told him he had only six months to live. He was prescribed a drug cocktail, a ...
According to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the vast majority of individuals with hepatitis C still have not been cured nearly 10 years after breakthrough ...
For a decade now, the world has had highly effective medications for hepatitis C infections. In the United States, they’ve mostly been sitting on the shelf, according to a new study. These drugs, ...
For decades, many Americans with hepatitis C have struggled to get tested or died waiting for a cure that remained inaccessibly expensive within the nation’s fractured health care system. President ...
Mental health conditions are common among veterans and may play a larger role than previously recognized in raising liver ...
When revolutionary direct-acting antivirals started to debut on the market between 2011 and 2014 and were later proven to cure hepatitis C 90% of the time, they sported a list price around $94,500, or ...
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