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Adding the experimental hepatitis C drug telaprevir to standard interferon /ribavirin therapy cured 75% of newly treated patients, drug maker Vertex announced.
Moreover, most patients taking a 12-week course of telaprevir combination therapy were able to shorten the total length of their grueling treatment from 48 weeks to 24 weeks.
Because hepatitis C virus (HCV) rapidly becomes resistant to telaprevir, the drug must be....(read full article here... )
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