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HCV Advocate Monthly Report
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Current reports from the HCV Advocate Drug Pipeline and Monthly report. Good stuff! August 1, 2017 Aug 2017 Eblast Newsletter
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Understanding Hepatitis C 2017
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HCV Advocate Support: Thanks to HCVAdvocate.org A Guide to Understanding Hepatitis C in 2017
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Hep C Advocate Approved Drugs 2017
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New information from the Hep C Advocate blog on the currently approved HCV drugs for 2017. Thanks to Alan Franciscus and the team there. HCV Medications 2017
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FDA Approves Mavyret
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The FDA approved AbbVie’s Mavyret to treat adults with hepatitis C genotypes 1 through 6 without cirrhosis or with mild cirrhosis, including those who failed previous direct-acting antiviral treatment, according to an agency press release. The new approval indicates only 8 weeks of treatment n...
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Technivie Monograph
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Technivie Monograph (Manufacturer's detailed package insert)
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Daklinza Monograph
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Daklinza Monograph (Manufacturers detailed package insert)
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MAVIRET/MAVYRET Monograph (glecaprevir/pibrentasvir)
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Viekira Pak - Viekira XR Monograph(s)
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Abbvie Pharmaceutical has improved the original Viekira Pak formulation and has included the timed release product called Viekira XR. That description and the original formulation of Viekira Pak follow. (Manufacturers detailed package insert) Viekira XR Monograph Viekira Pak Monograph
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Epclusa Monograph
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Detailed manufacturers information (package insert) on Epclusa Epclusa Monograph
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Vosevi Monograph
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Hepatitis C Medication Review & Update 2017
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How is hepatitis C treated?Hepatitis C virus is treated with all-oral medications. These pills, called antiviral medications, are usually taken once per day. These antiviral medications are extremely good at attacking the virus and preventing it from multiplying.Antiviral medications wer...
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HARVONI Monograph
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HCV: Explained 2018
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I found this recent article on our favorite topic, HCV. I found it to be a good description of it and the many issues that accompany it. It’s easy to understand and could be a good tool for us to present when asked about the disease. See what you think. I give it a 9 out of 10... Everything You Need to Know: HCV...
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Up-surge of Hep A in California
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California health officials battle state's largest hepatitis A outbreak in 2 decadesHelio - July 21, 2017The California Department of Public Health is working with local health officials in San Diego and Santa Cruz counties to contain the state's largest hepatitis A outbreak in 2 decades.As of J...
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Shortening HCV Treatment Courses
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From "Contagion Live - Infectious Diseases Today": ARTICLE Hepatitis C Treatment Time Could Be Cut in Half in Some Patients: A Proof of Concept Study NOV 14, 2018 | EINAV KEET A personalized medicine technique may shorten the duration and reduce the cost of treatment for hepatitis C virus infecti...
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Organ Donors
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Greetings from Connecticut, We with HCV can be heart (and kidney) donors! HCV is now considered a curable disease! Here is an informative TIME article: http://time.com/4996657/heart-transplant-hepatitis-c/ Joann
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AASLD/IDSA release updated HCV treatment guidelines
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The AASLD and IDSA HCV Guidance Panel has released updated guidelines for the treatment of hepatitis C virus infection, according to newly published data in Hepatology. You will note that they continue to recommend the use of 12 weeks of Sovaldi/Peg Interferon/Ribavirin in GT 3's that are able to...
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Liver Transplant Article
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So, this article/take-home message, about the study (and the study itself) I found interesting - and, oh of course, they just had to study the costs savings! The part that was interesting to me was that group of liver transplant people who were studied and followed between 1998 and 2015, who WERE tole...
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A "new?" NS5A - "PP1-668" (Ravidasvir)
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A relatively "new?" NS5A - (formerly called PP1-668), now named Ravidasvir. Well, it's news to me anyway. Out of Egypt (where there are many GT4's to trial it on), but reading other articles about it tonight, it IS being touted as pan, coupled with sof, with some impressive results, and more interest...
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2011 HCV Blog News
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Gee, this is old! 2011! And this list of celebs leave lots of room for the company of the rest of us. Many more have joined this list since 2011. And many more will come, many who still don't even know they have hepc yet. https://hepatitiscnewdrugs.blogspot.com/2011/03/celebrities-with-hepatiti...
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Clinical Care Options: Tools for HCV Care
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This slide set was published last year, but offers some interesting info for new and old members alike. I couldn’t locate it being brought here before and CCO is more often a physician only periodical most don’t have access to. It’s amazing to see the shear numbers affected by this disease globally an...
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SVR 24 Two Weeks After a Tripled Dose of Daclatasvir in an HCV Genotype 3 Patient
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Thanks to the cultural mediator support, we explained to the patient the correct posology of each drug to take during the day consisting of 12 week SOF (400 mg daily) plus DCV (60 mg daily) regimen. He returned 13 days after for a programmed visit and we were surprised to learn that he had taken 3 pills o...
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Extrahepatic Manifestation Improvements After SVR
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From: MedscapeNews > Reuters Health InformationExtrahepatic Manifestations of Chronic Hep C Improve With Sustained Virological ResponseBy Will Boggs MDMay 21, 2018 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Extrahepatic manifestations of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection improve or res...
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EASL 2018 Updates: Paris
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EASL Paris 2018 Updates c/o Clinical Care Options - Hepatitis Review Capsules Summaries, download slides, and listen to audio commentary from expert-led Webinars covering critical studies on viral hepatitis and NAFLD/NASH from Paris. credit: Clinical Care Options
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Conquering Hep B/C via Micro-Elimination
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Gilead, Inc., The World Health Organization has established a goal of eliminating viral hepatitis (hepatitis B and hepatitis C) by the year 2030.In support of this target, Gilead’s Medical Affairs team has created the CHIME Program (Conquering Hepatitis via Micro-Elimination), offering r...
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ALF CT Liver Transplant ReBirthday Party
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YOU'RE INVITED!ALF CT Liver Transplant ReBirthday PartyApril is National Donate Life Month. The American Liver Foundation recognizes the incredible gift of life through transplantation.The Liver Tranplant ReBirthday Party is a gathering to hear liver transplantation updates from Con...
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Herpes Zoster Vaccination - "Shingrex" versus "Zostavax"
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There was a fair bit of "talk" in the Journals, about safety profiles, and "Shingrex" getting approved for use over the "live" Zostavax in 2018. Between 2015 and as late as 2017 studies were still being completed about the effectiveness of Hep B and Zostavax immunizations in folk in association wit...
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Viekirax and Exviera (OPrD) - Real World Data
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Funny (not) how "real world" data takes so long to "come out"! Here is a recent publication (2018), all about "Viekirax" (ombitasvir/paritaprevir/ritonavir) and "Exviera" (dasabuvir) - also known as "OPrD" (similar to later and further formulations named Viekira Pak and then Viekira XR).B...
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