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Dr. Douglas Dieterich: “Merck Challenges Harvoni with New Hepatitis C Treatment”

  • Healthline
  • (April 24, 2015)

Powerful new Merck compounds have taken the fight against Hepatitis C to a new level. Combination therapy with grazoprevir/elbasvir in once-daily tablets showed high cure rates in research published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine for genotypes 1 (the most common) as well as genotypes 4 and 6. When combined with Gilead’s Sovaldi (sofosbuvir) in another study (C-SWIFT), the treatment showed “spectacular results,” according to Douglas Dieterich, MD, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Learn more