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VA Study Confirms High Cure Rates With New Hepatitis C Drugs

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Virus undetectable in high percentage of patients after treatment.

WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2016.  A Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) database study shows that new drug regimens for hepatitis C have resulted in “remarkably high” cure rates among patients in VA’s national health care system.

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Of the more than 17,000 Veterans in the study, all chronically infected with the hepatitis C virus at baseline, 75 percent to 93 percent had no detectable levels of the disease…

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