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Good News if You're Living With Hep C

Good News if You're Living With Hep C

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The once-incurable disease is finally getting some attention.

A trial of the popular hepatitis C treatment Sovaldi combined with the investigational new drug Daklinza saw nearly a 100 percent cure rate in patients who took the drugs for 12 weeks, University of Cincinnati researchers report. The cure rate was only 76 percent for eight weeks of treatment. The combo was as effective in HIV-positive patients as in those who did not have HIV.

Merck has applied for FDA approval for a once-daily, single-tablet combination med for hepatitis C, containing the drugs grazoprevir and elbasvir. Merck has studied the combo as a treatment for multiple types of the virus and for hard-to-treat patients, such as those who have both HIV and hep C.

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Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.
Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.
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