News tagged with peginterferon alfa
Added anti-viral improves response, halves duration of hepatitis C treatment
Apr 30, 2009 |
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The addition of the anti-viral drug telaprevir to a standard treatment for hepatitis C can shorten the duration of therapy and increase the number of patients who can be cured of their disease, according to the results of ...
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Hepatitis C: No overall difference in sustained viral response in most widely used treatments
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Findings from the largest study to date comparing the efficacy of competing treatments for chronic hepatitis C infection (HCV) show that the regimens are similar when it comes to safety and their ability to provoke long-term ...
Study shows positive findings in treating patients with advanced hepatitis C
Apr 24, 2008 |
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The hepatitis C therapy peginterferon alfa-2b, when given as low-dose maintenance therapy, can prevent disease progression in certain patients who failed previous interferon-based hepatitis C therapies and have advanced liver ...
New treatment therapy helps inhibit hepatitis C
Jul 31, 2008 |
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Two new studies examine the use of the nucleoside polymerase inhibitor, R1626, to the standard therapy for hepatitis C. The reports appear in the August issue of Hepatology, a journal published by John Wiley & Sons on beh ...
Current hepatitis C treatments work equally well, researchers report
Aug 07, 2009 |
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The three treatment combinations for clearing the most common form of the hepatitis C virus work equally well with similar side effects, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers and their colleagues in 13 ...
Men experience sexual dysfunction during hepatitis C therapy
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Sexual impairment is common among men with chronic hepatitis C undergoing antiviral therapy, according to a new study in Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Instit ...
New studies examine elimination of hepatitis B and C
Apr 01, 2009 |
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Two new studies in the April issue of Hepatology explore the ways that hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) can be cleared from patients' bodies. Hepatology is a journal published by John Wiley & Sons on beh ...
Researcher Announced Cure for Hepatitis C
May 22, 2007 |
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The use of peginterferon alone, or in combination with ribavirin, points to a cure for hepatitis C, the leading cause of cirrhosis, liver cancer and the need for liver transplant, a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher ...
Enzyme therapy slows kidney function decline
Apr 08, 2009 |
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For men with Fabry disease, enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) with agalsidase alfa slows deterioration of kidney function, reports a study in the online edition of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). "The results ...
Hepatitis C treatment reduces the virus but liver damage continues
Dec 09, 2008 |
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Treating patients who have chronic hepatitis C and advanced liver disease with long-term pegylated interferon significantly decreased their liver enzymes, viral levels and liver inflammation, but the treatment did not slow ...
NEJM study points to new era in hepatitis C treatment
Jun 05, 2009 |
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For patients with the most common form of hepatitis C, the addition of a hepatitis C-specific protease inhibitor called telaprevir to the current standard therapy can significantly improve the chances of being cured, and ...
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