New Drug Technology Produces Marked Improvement in Hepatitis C Therapy in Animals; May be Useful for Wide Range of Diseases
Texas Biomedical Research InstituteIn a dramatic finding, a new drug for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections that targets liver cells produced a substantial drop in blood levels of the virus in animals and continued to work up to several months after treatment, say scientists at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR) in San Antonio.