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New Hepatitis C treatment, again, maybe!

sa smith | April 5, 2011

The last time I wrote about a new avenue of treatment with Hepatitis C was in 2009. And it was a very new, very far-out kinda treatment. :-/ Now in 2011, I have another treatment breakthrough to talk about-- its more of a traditional antiviral therapy (protease inhibitor), and it works (especially on a variant of HepC that is difficult to treat, in racial populations that are difficult to treat), but Ive still got a Star-Wars-esque 'bad feeling about this...'Boceprevir for Untreated Chronic HCV Genotype 1 Infection Boceprevir for Previously Treated Chronic HCV Genotype 1 Infection Long story…

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