Hepatitis C drugs provide 'cure'
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People infected with hepatitis C can be cured with existing treatments, researchers have discovered.
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For the first time, doctors say they have found a pill that improves survival in liver cancer, a notoriously hard to treat disease diagnosed in more than half a million people globally each year.
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A drug widely used to treat H.I.V. infection may also be effective in fighting cancer, a new study suggests, and a human trial of the medicine is already under way.
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For the first time, doctors said Monday they have found a pill that improves survival for people with liver cancer, a notoriously hard to treat disease diagnosed in more than half a million people globally each year.
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Unwanted phase 2 results might not scuttle a promising hepatitis C drug.
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A drug that helps the immune system recognize and attack lung cancer cells may improve survival time among patients with advanced disease.
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A kidney cancer drug became the first medicine to extend the life of patients with advanced liver cancer in a large study, adding about three months to survival compared with a placebo, according to a data released on Monday.
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Marijuana can improve the effectiveness of drug therapy for hepatitis C, a potentially deadly viral infection that affects more than 3 million Americans, a study has found. The work adds to a growing literature supporting the notion that in some circumstances pot can offer medical benefits.
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Scientists have developed a new way to treat liver failure by manipulating the immune response.
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The new drug could become the first effective treatment for liver cancer, one of the deadliest forms of cancer.
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It can be incredibly difficult for patients to ferret out studies of experimental drugs that offer hope to threat their disease. There is no comprehensive database of ongoing clinical trials, but specialists offer advice for the search:
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Gene therapy can cure children born with a condition that knocks out their natural defences against infection, mounting evidence shows.
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Two experimental drugs could offer hope to leukemia patients who no longer benefit from Gleevec, the groundbreaking cancer pill, research presented Sunday in San Diego at the meeting of the American Society of Hematology shows.
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A drug used to treat malaria for the past 60 years has been found effective against SARS coronavirus, according to researchers from Belgium.
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Experts say an expected awareness campaign on hepatitis C will be too little too late to prevent thousands of deaths.
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Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG's  cancer-fighting drug Gleevec can still help treat chronic  myeloid leukemia even after five years of use, a new study  showed on Wednesday.
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With at least seven million people in the country infected with hepatitis C, increasing public awareness of the disease is one way to halt its transmission.