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Hep C Drugs: Prices to Plummet, but Not in US
Major drug companies are starting to make cheap versions of blockbuster hepatitis C drugs available to people in poor and many middle-income nations.
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Statins Slow Liver Disease in HIV/HCV Patients
Statins show promise to reduce liver disease incidence in coinfected patients.
Kids Who Live Far from Liver Transplant Centers More Likely to Die Waiting for Organ
Traveling a longer distance to a medical center was not associated with spending more time on a waiting list.
CDC: Suburban, Rural Addicts Aren't Getting Enough Clean Needles
Clean needle programs have reduced HIV incidence among injection drug abusers by 80% from 1990 to 2006.
Biosimilar Improves Anemia in Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy
Anemia caused by chemotherapy for lymphoid malignancies improved in patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and multiple myeloma.
Turing's $750 Pill Daraprim Has $1 Competitor
The $750 per pill price of pyrimethamine could soon be undercut by a new compound selling for $1 per pill.
Making HCV a Rare Disease in the US Could Cost $106 Billion
Number of infected people is projected to drop below 1 million by 2020, but with substantial HCV disease and death burden.
Baricitinib Tops Adalimumab in Rheumatoid Arthritis Trial
Baricitinib improved disease activity in patients not responding to conventional or biologic DMARDs.
Rheumatoid Arthritis Biosimilar as Effective as Adalimumab
Biosimilar may offer patients with RA drug cost relief in the near future.
New MAB Safe in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
Experimental DMARD may be clinically beneficial for active rheumatoid arthritis treatment.
IBD: Angiotensin II Blockade Worsens Outcomes
Patients with Crohn's disease taking angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors have significantly higher rate of hospitalizations.
Urban African Americans Get Pancreatic Cancer Much Younger, Study Finds
More than half of patients did not return to physicians for follow-up care.
Hepatitis C: The Pan-Virals Are on the Way
Pan-virals show potential to work across all HCV genotypes.
HIV: WHO Calls for Immediate Antiretroviral Therapy and Expanded Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis
New guidelines based on overwhelming clinical evidence that ART is effective.
Medical Marijuana: $100 Mil Investment in Jamaican Weed
Tourists with prescriptions for medical marijuana will be able to apply for a permit to let them buy it in Jamaica.