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Gilead’s Phase II study showed 99% HCV cure rates
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...
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FDA approves Roche’s blood screening assay for donor screening
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...
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AbbVie receives FDA approval for new Hepatitis C drug
27 July 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
US FDA has approved Viekira XR (dasabuvir, ombitasvir, paritaprevir and ritonavir) for the treatment of chronic genotype 1 (GT1) hepatitis C...
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FDA approves Epclusa for treatment of chronic HCV
29 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Epclusa is the first all-oral, pan-genotypic, single tablet regimen for the treatment of adults with genotype 1-6 chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection...
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Positive CHMP opinion for Gilead’s Epclusa in HCV
27 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The EMA’s CHMP has adopted a positive opinion on Gilead’s Epclusa for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus...
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AbbVie presents data for ABT-493 and ABT-530 regimen in HCV
18 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
With eight weeks of treatment, 97-98 percent of GT1-3 HCV infected patients without cirrhosis treated with ABT-493 and ABT-530 achieved sustained SVR12...
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Gilead announces results from two Phase III studies of TAF in HBV
15 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Studies 108 and 110 were 48-week clinical trials evaluating TAF among 1,298 treatment-naïve and treatment-experienced patients with chronic HBV infection...
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AbbVie presents real-world data for Viekirax + Exviera in HCV
15 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
AbbVie has announced new real-world data for Viekirax and Exviera, showing 96% of GT1 HCV patients and 100% of GT4 patients achieved SVR12...
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Positive results for AbbVie’s Viekirax + Exviera regimen
14 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
AbbVie announced high SVR sates with Viekirax + Exviera regardless of the presence of resistance-associated variants prior to treatment in GT1 chronic HCV patients...
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MSD announces positive results from elbasvir/grazoprevir HCV study
14 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Elbasvir/grazoprevir demonstrated superiority on efficacy and improvement on safety endpoints compared to sofosbuvir plus pegIFN/RBV...
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Combined HIV and hepatitis C virus vaccination a step closer
13 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
A study has shown that the 'prime boost' approach is compatible with co-administration of vectors encoding for HIV and HCV antigens...
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CHMP adopts positive opinion of AbbVie’s Viekirax + Exviera in HCV
26 February 2016 | By Victoria White
The CHMP opinion of the Type-II variation application for Viekirax + Exviera is supported by data from the Phase 3b TURQUOISE-III study...
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Gilead’s MAA for TAF in hepatitis B now under assessment by the EMA
26 February 2016 | By Victoria White
TAF is a novel, targeted prodrug of tenofovir that has demonstrated high antiviral efficacy similar to Gilead’s Viread at one-tenth of the dose...
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China to remain the largest hepatitis B market, says GlobalData
24 February 2016 | By Victoria White
GlobalData says China will continue to dominate the hepatitis B treatment space, as its market share rises from 38.8% in 2014 to 47.2% by 2024...