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Interferon Not Included: Say Goodbye to Hepatitis C

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May 6, 2015

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Learn more about Bristol-Myers Squibb’s drugs that had a 93% cure rate in recent trials for Hepatitis C genotype 1.
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Newest Hepatitis C Drug Without Interferon Achieves 93 Percent Cure Rate

Written by David Heitz

Another pharmaceutical company appears headed to market with a drug that cures hepatitis C genotype 1, without interferon and ribavirin, in just 12 weeks.

Research published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) showed a combination of Bristol-Myers Squibb drugs daclatasvir, asunaprevir, and beclabuvir cured hepatitis C in 93 percent of 112 study participants with cirrhosis who had not previously been treated.

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