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9 August 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
Transplantation followed by antiviral therapy cured hepatitis C in 100 percent of patients receiving kidneys from infected donors...
26 January 2018 | By Dr Zara Kassam (European Pharmaceutical Review)
A drug used to treat Hepatitis C effectively protected and rescued neural cells infected by the Zika virus...
4 August 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (European Pharmaceutical Review)
The FDA has approved Mavyret to treat adults with chronic hepatitis C virus genotypes 1-6 without cirrhosis or with mild cirrhosis...
28 July 2017 | By Steve Bremer (European Pharmaceutical Review)
Russian biotech company BIOCAD plans to leverage competitive advantages to take 5% of the European medicines market
7 June 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
Treatment with generic directly-acting antiviral drugs available in India increases lifespan while reducing lifetime health care costs
26 April 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
Gilead Sciences’ Phase II studies demonstrated HCV cure rates of 99% in children, and 100% in patients co-infected with HCV and hepatitis B virus...
24 April 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
AbbVie announced that 99% (145/146) of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infected patients with genotype and compensated cirrhosis (Child-Pugh A)...
2 March 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Digital Editor
The European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted a positive opinion for Abbvie’s shorter, eight-week treatment of Viekirax (ombitasvir/paritaprevir/ritonavir tablets) + Exviera (dasabuvir tablets) as an option for previously untreated adult patients with geotype 1b chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV)…
23 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
H is for Hepatitis C - the next instalment of our daily pharmaceutical alphabet bringing you up to date with all the latest in Hep C research...
18 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
In more than 700 genotype 1-6 chronic HCV infected patients, 97.5% achieved sustained virologic response at 12 weeks, regardless of baseline viral load...
24 October 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
The cobas MPX assay enables donor screening laboratories to apply the most advanced PCR-based diagnostic technology to the surveillance of donated blood...
30 September 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
For the investigational, pan-genotypic regimen of glecaprevir /pibrentasvir (ABT-530) (G/P) for the treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis C...
28 September 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
The primary endpoint of the trial being the percentage of patients who achieved a sustained virologic response 12 weeks after treatment (SVR12)...
9 August 2016 | By MSD
Following successful phase 3 clinical trials, in which MSD’s new Hepatitis C drug, Zepatier, performed well, achieving high virologic cure rates across the study, the European Commission has licensed the drug for sale in the European market, specifically for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) in adults with…
28 July 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
To find out more about Hepititis C, European Pharmaceutical Review spoke with Raquel Peck, CEO of the World Hepatitis Alliance and discovered exactly what it is being done to combat this widespread global health issue...
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