Retreating patients with hepatitis C: Telaprevir boosts cure rate
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 - 17:21
in Health & Medicine
Adding the investigational drug telaprevir to standard treatment for hepatitis C infection cures about half the patients willing to give therapy a second try. That compares to a cure rate of just 14 percent among those who were retreated with the standard regimen, according to researchers at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI).