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I was diagnosed with inactive hep c and my doctor told me that i have to live with it and it can not be cured. is this a for sure thing?
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Drugs Hepatitis C: The New Standard in Hepatitis C Treatment In 2013 and 2014, the FDA approved three new drugs: 1.Simeprevir (Olysio) 2.Sofosbuvir (Sovaldi),3 Ledipasvir-sofosbuvir (Harvoni) Combining telaprevir or boceprevir with interferon and ribavirin pushed success rates as high as 70%. But the drug combination still wasn't ideal. "Adding that third drug increased the side effects Sofosbuvir comes in an easy once-a-day pill. It takes as few as 12 weeks to work
Answered 11/8/2015
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