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Hepatitis C is a blood-borne viral disease which can cause liver inflammation, fibrosis, cirrhosis and liver cancer. The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is spread by blood-to-blood contact with an infected person's blood. Many people with HCV infection have no symptoms and are unaware of the need to seek treatment. Hepatitis C infects an estimated 150-200 million people worldwide.

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IFN Free Is In Our Future

allaboutliving
allaboutliving
IFN-free tx is coming. We aren't there yet but it is coming! Stay tuned.

http://hepatitiscresearchandnewsupdates.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/new-drugs-trump-interferon-in-hcv.html
WarriorGal
WarriorGal
"The era of interferon and ribavirin in the treatment of hepatitis C viral infections appears to be drawing to a close, and few clinicians will mourn the passing of the effective but highly toxic combination, investigators said at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections."

Hmmmmm..... right now Riba is still being used for harder to treat genos... guess that will change as move forward, huh?

I just LOVE seeing 99 and 100% rates!!! What a drastic change: sorter duration of treatment, barely any side effects and a much greater success rate! makes me want to DANCE!!
catmagic
catmagic
New tx's just popping out all over the place.

How SWEET is this?
LoveEachOther
LoveEachOther
HOOR-friggin'-AY!! Don't think it could get much better! And, we are only into the 3rd month of 2014!! Wow
catmagic
catmagic
This is THE year for AMAZING treatments for all who suffer from HCV. Just incredible to think back to only three months ago, when some of these drugs were in trials (and still are), some were not quite or just barely FDA approved, and not one of them (the new kids on the block) were available to us. BOOM, the new year arrives and we have the BALL BUSTER Sovaldi available for prescription - and Simeprevir/Olysio too, but the best chance with Oly is to pair it with Sofosbuvir/Sovaldi off label. There are just so many new meds in the pipeline - for ALL genos - wait until Gilead gets its "pangenotype" one on the market - EVERYONE has a cure. No more suffering!

Hallelujah!
Arabella1
Arabella1
My GI said the Interferon rep. came by for his grand finale of the drug, Like some kind if super cheap Interferon blowout! They couldn't pay ME to use that stuff but thats easy to say in this position, and I sure am grateful for all who went through it to get us where we are today!