Study finds hope for oral hepatitis C regimen

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that 36% of hepatitis C patients who took the oral drug candidates daclatasvir and asunaprevir had undetectable viral loads after 24 weeks. Meanwhile, nine in 10 patients responded to the combination plus ribavirin and interferon. This is the first study to indicate that difficult-to-treat cases might respond without the aid of injectable interferon, said the lead researcher. Bloomberg

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