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Analysts jolted by Pharmasset's stellar data on combo hep C treatmentFierceBiotechIn one of the worst kept secrets of the year, new data shows that Pharmasset's combo oral approach to hepatitis C triggered the complete elimination of the virus in 15 of 16 patients after only 14 days of treatment. And the startling results, ...See all stories on this topic »

Gilead's hepatitis C therapy called successfulSan Francisco ChronicleGilead Sciences Inc.'s four-drug combination eliminated hepatitis C virus in patients in an early-stage study, RBC Capital Markets LLC analysts said. The findings support an ongoing midstage study of the combination, the analysts, led by Yee in ...See all stories on this topic »

The Hepatitis lobby is in townAlbany Times Union (blog)Also, one of their spokesmen notes that an estimated 240000 New Yorkers have chronic hepatitis C. Most got it through unsafe injection drug use, although people who received blood transfusion and/or organ transplants before 1992, including veterans are ...See all stories on this topic »

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Statement on contaminated bloodBBC NewsIndividuals in Wales who contracted hepatitis C through contaminated blood from the NHS in the late 1970s and 1980s will benefit from additional support from the assembly government, Health Minister Hart AM announced on 8 March 2011. ...See all stories on this topic »

s Deliver Families' Statement at Penrose InquiryAllmediascotlandThe families and victims infected with Hepatitis C and HIV from NHS transfusions took the rare step of reading out a statement immediately prior to the start of the Penrose Inquiry into the scandal. Their solicitor McGuire of s ...See all stories on this topic »

requests top-level visit to VA dental clinicDayton Daily NewsThe invitation comes in the wake of news that nine patients seen at the medical center's dental clinic may have contracted hepatitis B or hepatitis C from a dentist who did not follow basic infection control practices. The dentist, Dwight M. Pemberton, ...See all stories on this topic »

Catskill support groupsTimes Herald-RecordHepatitis C Support Group — Every other Mon., Upper Delaware Valley ID, 427 Broadway, Suite 1, Monticello. Contact jane_koskey@.... Hospice of Orange and Sullivan Counties Inc. — Bereavement support groups for children and adults. ...See all stories on this topic »

Novel method could improve the performance of proteins used therapeuticallyEurekAlert (press release)IFN-alpha 2 is used to treat a variety of diseases, including leukemia, melanoma, and chronic hepatitis C, while GCSF-3 (known as filgrastim and marketed as Neupogen®) is administered to patients with neutropenia. RELEVANCE: Sortase could be used to ...See all stories on this topic »

Pharmasset (VRUS) Upgraded by ThinkEquity to "Buy"American Banking NewsThe Company focuses on the development of nucleoside/tide analogs as oral therapeutics for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Nucleoside/tide analogs are a class of compounds, which act as alternative substrates for the viral ...See all stories on this topic »