The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Hepcludex (bulevirtide-gmod) injection to treat chronic hepatitis delta ...
Most people recover from the infection, but it poses great risks for those who don’t. A new drug may cure 1 in 5 of these ...
The sneaky virus poses serious health threats if it goes on to become a chronic disease. Clinical trial results suggest a new drug may cure 1 in 5 of those cases.
As the opioid epidemic has worsened in the United States, prevalence of hepatitis C has also increased. Hepatitis C is a bloodborne virus that damages the liver. It is mainly spread through sharing ...
A first-of-its-kind drug for hepatitis B is letting some patients stop treatment without showing signs of the dangerous liver virus, what’s called a “functional cure,” researchers reported Thursday.
Across two large trials, roughly 20% of people treated with bepirovirsen had undetectable levels of the virus after stopping ...
Congress should continue to make treatment affordability a pillar for patients, but it can’t come at the cost of ignoring significant progress for life-threatening illnesses like hepatitis C (HCV).
An experimental hepatitis B drug shows potential for a functional cure, allowing some patients to stop treatment without ...
Antiviral treatments play a crucial role in the survival of patients with either hepatitis B or C and liver cancer, but researchers have found that antiviral therapy is “severely underutilized” even ...
Hepatitis C and opioid use disorder are both chronic but treatable conditions. Yet many Americans living with this deadly combination aren’t offered treatment. Imagine going to your doctor with strep ...
A few years ago, a patient was cured of multiple myeloma after being treated for hepatitis C, astounding researchers from the group led by Joaquín Martínez, from the H12O-CNIO Hematological Tumours ...