All the news Showing 10 of 33 articles from: Previous non-responders & relapsersGet an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources Triple combination cures most hepatitis C patients with prior DAA treatment failure Liz Highleyman / 02 May 2017 Almost all people with genotype 1 hepatitis C who were previously unsuccessfully treated with a course of interferon-free direct-acting antiviral therapy achieved sustained response when retreated with a three-drug combination ... Investigational combination ABT-493 and ABT-530 works well in patients who did not achieve SVR12 with previous DAA therapy Michael Carter / 26 April 2016 An experimental combination of direct acting antivirals (DAAs) is effective and safe in HCV-genotype-1-infected patients who did not respond to previous DAA therapy, according to research presented to the recent International Liver Congress ... Merck HCV combination effective after failure of first generation of direct-acting antivirals Keith Alcorn / 24 April 2015 A 12-week course of treatment with two direct-acting antivirals in development by Merck plus ribavirin cured 95% of people with hepatitis C who had experienced failure of a previous treatment combination containing a ... Sofosbuvir/ledipasvir cures most previously treated hepatitis C patients with cirrhosis Liz Highleyman / 07 January 2015 Difficult-to-treat hepatitis C patients with liver cirrhosis who were not cured with a prior course of first-generation HCV protease inhibitors had a sustained response rate of 96-97% when re-treated with sofosbuvir/ledipasvir with ribavirin ... MK-5172 + MK-8742 demonstrate good early post-treatment response rates Liz Highleyman / 24 April 2014 A combination of two direct-acting antivirals, MK-5172 and MK-8742, with or without ribavirin, led to early post-treatment sustained response rates above 90% for people with genotype 1 hepatitis C virus (HCV), including ... BMS combination cures 90% of genotype 1b hepatitis C in 24 weeks Caspar Thomson / 17 April 2014 A combination of two direct-acting antivirals developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) cured 90% of previously untreated people with genotype 1b hepatitis C infection in 24 weeks, without the need for pegylated interferon ... Sofosbuvir/ledipasvir co-formulation cures more than 90% of treatment-naive and retreated genotype 1 patients Liz Highleyman / 16 April 2014 A co-formulation of sofosbuvir and ledipasvir taken for as little as eight to twelve weeks produced high sustained response rates across the board for participants in the phase 3 ION trials, including ... European liver specialists recommend use of newest hepatitis C drugs Keith Alcorn / 12 April 2014 The European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) has issued new guidelines for the treatment of hepatitis C which recommend that wherever possible, patients should be treated with ... Sofosbuvir/ledipasvir is safe and effective for relapsers and hard-to-treat patients Liz Highleyman / 11 April 2014 A co-formulation of sofosbuvir and ledipasvir successfully treated a variety of difficult-to-treat patient populations including people with hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 3, people with decompensated cirrhosis and people who were not cured ... 88% of previous relapsers achieve hepatitis C cure with simeprevir-based triple therapy Keith Alcorn / 11 April 2014 Almost 90% of European patients who had relapsed after previous treatment with pegylated interferon and ribavirin were cured of hepatitis C after 24 weeks of treatment with the protease inhibitor simeprevir (Olysio) ... ← First123...4Next → Other pages in this section Latest news All the news Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Hepatitis C Hepatitis D Hepatitis E Coronavirus NAFLD Treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma Transmission, epidemiology and prevention Health services, policy and advocacy Social issues Conference news Email bulletin archive