In a major breakthrough, researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio investigated a new oral therapy and found that the therapy cured hepatitis C in over 90 percent of patients with liver cirrhosis (liver scarring) and also the therapy was well tolerated by the patients.
This is a turning point in hepatitis C treatment as the cure rate among these patients has been less than 50 percent.
Statistics according to the World Health Organization reveal that a whopping 130-150 million suffer with chronic hepatitis C infections, globally. And nearly 350,000-500,000 of them die every year due to the liver disease linked to hepatitis C that occurs due to the attack of a virus on the liver causing inflammation. Hepatitis C is the leading cause of liver transplants, liver cancer and cirrhosis in the United States.
Prior to this new revolutionary treatment, the only effective treatment against hepatitis C was 'Interferon'. But this therapy did benefit most of the patients as most suffered a relapse and the therapy led to multiple side effects.
The new oral therapy is free of interferon and has several agents that include ABT-450/ritonavir, ombitasvir, dasabuvir and ribavirin.
The new drug was tested on over 380 patients in 78 centers in two studies. In the first study, the patients received the oral therapy for 12 weeks and in the second test for 24 weeks. All the patients reported having liver cirrhosis. Twelve week after giving the last dose, the researchers noticed the absence of the hepatitis C virus in 91.8 percent of patients as no virus was detected in their bloodstream.
Those who were treated for 24 weeks, 95.9 percent of them were virus free by the end of the therapy.
Source:
http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/13986/20140412/new-hepatitis-c-treatment-cures-90-percent-of-patients-with-liver-cirrhosis.htm
This is a turning point in hepatitis C treatment as the cure rate among these patients has been less than 50 percent.
Statistics according to the World Health Organization reveal that a whopping 130-150 million suffer with chronic hepatitis C infections, globally. And nearly 350,000-500,000 of them die every year due to the liver disease linked to hepatitis C that occurs due to the attack of a virus on the liver causing inflammation. Hepatitis C is the leading cause of liver transplants, liver cancer and cirrhosis in the United States.
Prior to this new revolutionary treatment, the only effective treatment against hepatitis C was 'Interferon'. But this therapy did benefit most of the patients as most suffered a relapse and the therapy led to multiple side effects.
The new oral therapy is free of interferon and has several agents that include ABT-450/ritonavir, ombitasvir, dasabuvir and ribavirin.
The new drug was tested on over 380 patients in 78 centers in two studies. In the first study, the patients received the oral therapy for 12 weeks and in the second test for 24 weeks. All the patients reported having liver cirrhosis. Twelve week after giving the last dose, the researchers noticed the absence of the hepatitis C virus in 91.8 percent of patients as no virus was detected in their bloodstream.
Those who were treated for 24 weeks, 95.9 percent of them were virus free by the end of the therapy.
Source:
http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/13986/20140412/new-hepatitis-c-treatment-cures-90-percent-of-patients-with-liver-cirrhosis.htm
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spiritual well-being. An important part of the healing process for me is to
be active in HIV/AIDS education, support and advocacy. I volunteer in a
number of HIV/AIDS organizations, and in particular Positive Women, because
the impact of HIV /AIDS on women is very different than from men. As once a
positive person, I will forever be grateful to God Almighty and Doctor
lucky to reach me when i thought it is all over, Today am happy with my
family living free after the medical doctor have confirmed my HIV status
Negative, I have never in my life believed that HIV could be cured by any
herbal medicine, I want to make sure that HIV never happens to anyone else.
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