(Reuters) - A combination of five oral drugs being tested by AbbVie Inc cured at least 88 percent of new patients with hepatitis C after only eight weeks of treatment, ...
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April 23, 2013 6:04 am by Berkrot, Bill | 0 Comments
(Reuters) - A combination of three experimental Bristol-Myers Squibb hepatitis C drugs appeared to be highly effective, according to data from a mid-stage clinical trial, keeping the company in the ...
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Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. said today it has entered into a non-exclusive agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company to conduct second, all-oral studies of the former's VX-135 drug with the latter's drug, ...
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February 23, 2013 1:27 pm by Lee, Mara | 0 Comments
Three months after Achillion Pharmaceuticals Inc. said it had enough cash to operate through the middle of 2014, it has decided to issue another $125 million worth of stock.The shares ...
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(Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc said a late-stage trial testing its experimental hepatitis C drug showed no detectable virus level in 73 percent of study patients after 16 weeks of ...
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Preventing, identifying and treating infectious diseases has been a hot spot for innovation in healthcare. This growing company, though, is taking a step back, focusing instead on improving the process ...
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The technician was indicated Wednesday in New Hampshire on 14 new charges. The outbreak involved more than 30 patients in New Hampshire while people in a number of other states ...
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Nov 19 (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc said U.S. health regulators had approved its drug Promacta for the additional use of treating hepatitis C patients with a low platelet count who ...
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(Reuters) - A trio of oral medicines from Abbott Laboratories Inc to treat hepatitis C produced unprecedented cure rates in patients who had previously failed to benefit from standard treatment, ...
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November 10, 2012 10:00 am by Clarke, Toni | 0 Comments
BOSTON (Reuters) - Boehringer Ingelheim said on Saturday it plans to initiate a late-stage clinical trial of its experimental hepatitis C treatment following promising results from earlier studies.The company announced ...
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(Reuters) - An all oral regimen of hepatitis C medicines developed by Abbott Laboratories led to high cure rates in both new patients and those for whom prior treatment failed, ...
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(Reuters) - Achillion Pharmaceuticals Inc said an early-stage trial of its experimental hepatitis C treatment showed that a single dose of the drug significantly reduced the severity of the infection.The ...
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Sept 25 (Reuters) - Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Tuesday it will discontinue development of an experimental drug to treat hepatitis C after it failed to show sufficient efficacy to ...
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A clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing drug candidates for hepatitis D and hepatitis C has secured $4.6 million of its targeted $5 million funding round. ...
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(Reuters) - Bristol-Myers Squibb Co has discontinued development of an experimental hepatitis C drug after a patient treated with the drug in a clinical trial died of heart failure and ...
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