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Of six milestones, only two left on route to hep B cure
Publish date: March 30, 2017
By: Ted Bosworth Family Practice News
Of six milestones, only two left on route to hep B cure
Publish date: March 30, 2017
By: Ted Bosworth Family Practice News
PHILADELPHIA – The road to absolute cure of hepatitis B virus (HBV) is so well understood that the strategies now being actively pursued may conceivably eliminate this infection from the human population, according to a summary of progress presented at Digestive Diseases: New Advances.
“As in HIV and hepatitis C infections, combination therapies of drugs with different mechanisms of action will be the solution. Which combination will deliver the ultimate cure is yet to be determined, but within 5 years we should have a cure,” reported Vinod K. Rustgi, MD, chief of hepatology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, N.J.
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