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New Treatments for Hepatitis C

                                                         … maybe

2008

February

Scientists in the land down under work to bring us a vaccine for hep C.  ... cool.

New Hope for Hepatitis C Sufferers

Newswise (press release) – USA

Newswise — Adelaide scientists will lead a $2 million five-year project to develop new vaccines and explore better treatment options for hepatitis C ...

The first protease inhibitor out of the chute’s now looking at a problem of drug resistance – in other words, the virus beats the drug – adding this to their not-so-impressive numbers.

Vertex’s lead drug telaprevir for the treatment of Hepatitis C ...

Financial Times - London,England,UK

Reimbursement and pricing will also have to be taken into consideration, as many patients on Hepatitis C treatment have to take an additional EPO product to ...

January

While we could give a rip about Human Genome Sciences stock market rating, what happened here is that when they upped the dose in their clinical trial, people taking the drug started getting heart problems.  ... this we care about.

Human Genome Sciences shares fall on hepatitis C drug results

Daily Record (subscription) - Baltimore,MD,USA

... said it would modify trials of an experimental drug to treat hepatitis C after some patients receiving higher dosages experienced serious side effects. ...

Telapravir – formerly known as VX-950 – trial results: good news & bad news.  The bad news ... it doesn’t work; the good news: used with peg-interferon & ribavirin, it might cut the treatment time in half.  ... bummer.

Vertex Under the Gun

Motley Fool – USA

Vertex announced yesterday that it was advancing its lead hepatitis C drug, telaprevir, into phase 3 trials, yet the market promptly took its shares to lows ...

 2007

December 2007

One of the reasons treatment can be too hard to endure is cuz the peg interferon can cause an abrupt drop in our platelet counts.  Here’s some news stories on a drug that may be able to do something about that.

Eltrombopag Effective for Hepatitis C Patients With Low Blood ...

Newswise (press release) – USA

Newswise — For patients with hepatitis C, having a low blood platelet count is a frequent complication associated with advanced disease. ...

Eltrombopag effective for hepatitis C patients with low blood ...

HULIQ - Hickory,NC,USA     

For patients with hepatitis C, having a low blood platelet count is a frequent complication associated with advanced disease. This problem is compounded by ...

Drug helps boost blood-platelets in Hep C

Earthtimes - London,UK

28 A report in the New England Journal of Medicine says the drug eltrombopag appears to significantly boost platelet counts in hepatitis C patients. ...

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