Monday, 07 March 2016 02:46
Hepatitis C Drugs Insurance Coverage Practices investigated by NY attorney general
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Insurance companies are a very important part of the lives of many Hepatitis C patients. With the effective new drugs costing up to $100,000, the majority of people are counting on their insurance companies to foot the bill. However, the staggering prices…
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Wednesday, 02 March 2016 18:09
Sunvepra (100mg asunaprevir) - A New Hepatitis C Drug for difficult-to-treat patients
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The last two years or so have been very successful for Hepatitis C treatments. The revolutionary new line of drugs that was registered for chronic Hepatitis C since 2013 feature over 90% cure rates and a pill-per-day regimens. Asunaprevir is the latest…
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Monday, 29 February 2016 17:45
Hepatitis C Drugs may cost less than $100 to produce - Study by Dr. Andrew Hill
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Even before Sovaldi, the first modern antiviral medicine for Hepatitis C, obtained FDA's market authorisation, a group of scientists from University of Liverpool correctly predicted the looming problem - Hepatitis C drugs will become one of the costliest and thus hardly accessible…
So I guess like a lot of people I've been wondering how good a deal the PBS negotiated. Last week I heard that a major public hospital had ordered 10 lots for $66,000 but thought that must be wrong. Given the pharmacists have to…
Friday, 26 February 2016 20:50
Hep C treatment discount for US Army Veterans? Not even Bernie Sanders can stop Gilead's extreme pricing
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Here are some quick facts about Hepatitis C and US Army Veterans. Since 2013, we have a cure for Hepatitis C that is about 95% successful In the US, more than 200,000 Army Veterans suffer from Hepatitis C Here is what US…
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Wednesday, 24 February 2016 21:29
UK surgeon tested positive for Hepatitis C - Now 8000 of his patients were offered Hepatitis C testing
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Today we bring you a staggering story about a UK-based surgeon who was diagnosed with Hepatitis C in 2008. One of the biggest Hepatitis C stories of 2016 Jump to 2016: Yesterday more than 8000 of his former patients were mailed an…
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"What would have taken a hundred years for us to achieve, is now at hand!" were the first words of Prof. Angelos Hatzakis who serves at EU Council in Brussels as a co-chair of Hepatitis B and C Public Policy Association. In…
Tuesday, 16 February 2016 19:35
Twinvir - One of the best known generic versions of Harvoni (sofosbuvir 400mg / ledipasvir 90mg)
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In the world of Hepatitis C patients, Twinvir started to pick on mythical proportions. It seldom happens that a generic drug, no matter how successful, becomes so quickly known to the patients who need it. Twinvir pills (sofosbuvir 400 mg / ledipasvir 90 mg)…
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Saturday, 13 February 2016 21:31
Hepatitis C Tourism to India - Why not just Order Hepatitis C Drugs Online?
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Gilead Sciences, a pharmaceutical giant, has launched very effective yet pricey drug for the Hepatitis C patients. The company justifies the $94,500 price of Harvoni and $84,000 for Sovaldi for a 12 week course on the basis of its success rate at…
Hepatitis C is an infection that leads to the inflammation of the liver. Hepatitis C can be transmitted from person to person in various ways; the most predominant via the use of drug injections (60%) as you can see on the pie…
Tuesday, 09 February 2016 20:49
Merck launches Zepatier - New Hepatitis C cure with a slightly lower price tag
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Today I have some good news for Hepatitis C patients with genotype 1 or genotype 4. In the beginning of February 2016, pharmaceutical giant Merck has entered Hepatitis C treatment market by introducing a completely new drug. Under its trademark, it is…
Thursday, 04 February 2016 23:50
Here is why the VA (US Government) owns sofosbuvir
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In the beginning God created heaven and earth. Dr Schinazi created PSI-6130 PSI-6130 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1932527/ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This work was supported in part by NIH grants 5R37-AI-041980, 4R37-AI-025899, 5P30-AI-50409 (CFAR), and RR000165 (to Harold M. McClure) and the Department of Veterans Affairs. R. F. Schinazi…
Thursday, 04 February 2016 00:28
Australia is the first country to subsidize Hepatitis C drugs - but will it be enough for everybody?
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In a surprising and warm-hearted gesture, the Australian government announced in December 2015 that they will pay for all Hepatitis C medications Australians need. They pledged a whole of $1 billion to the cause. The announcement came from Health Minister Sussan Ley,…
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Tuesday, 02 February 2016 18:48
Sofosbuvir Mechanism of Action - How sofosbuvir fights of Hepatitis C Virus
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Hepatitis C has long been a formidable disease with a high death toll and inadequate treatment. However, in the recent years we have seen much more successful treatment options on a backbone of a newly discovered therapeutic molecule called sofosbuvir. Sofosbuvir is an…
Tuesday, 02 February 2016 18:48
Sofosbuvir Mechanism of Action - How sofosbuvir fights of Hepatitis C Virus
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Hepatitis C has long been a formidable disease with a high death toll and inadequate treatment. However, in the recent years we have seen much more successful treatment options on a backbone of a newly discovered therapeutic molecule called sofosbuvir. Sofosbuvir is an…
Dear Colleague, ASHM is running the Treatment of hepatitis C with Direct Acting Antivirals course at the Rydges Melbourne, Victoria on Saturday, 20 February 2016. This course is being delivered as part of the Control and Elimination within AuStralia of HEpatitis C from people living…
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Thursday, 21 January 2016 05:59
Hepatitis C is no longer a death sentence. Why are people still dying because of it?
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New age Hepatitis C medicines are more than just a medical wonder. They gave humanity an ability to save lives. How good are we at saving those lives? More people die of Hepatitis C than HIV/AIDS Hepatitis C is a serious disease…
Tuesday, 19 January 2016 14:38
Life's most persistent question - What are you doing for others?
Written by Super User
A short excerpt from a recently discovered audio recording of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking at Syracuse University in July of 1965. There are some things so dear, some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they're…
Awesome animated video of HCV life cycle.
Sunday, 03 January 2016 10:17
Nothing Is Impossible - Let's Treat Everyone, Everywhere
Written by Super User
At FixHepC our goal is to see everyone, everywhere with Hepatitis C treated with affordable DAA medications so that no man, woman or child is left behind. The target is nothing less that sending this disease to the annals of history, as…
They (who are they anyway) say, if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. If you are GT1 or GT3 then the PBS looks like it is going to come through for you (and that is 90% of all…
I don't have permission to attribute this but the source is impeccable: Hi James I think we should publicise the following key features of the PBS arrangement: All patients (>=18 years) with chronic hepatitis C will be able to access treatment through…
Sunday, 20 December 2015 16:58
PBS Listing - Heaven or Hell? - The Devil is in the Details
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I'm writing this to help people understand what the recent announcement that DAA medications for HCV will be listed on the PBS. Here are a couple of links to it, both with interviews with the minister: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/turnbull-government-to-spend-1-billion-on-hepatitis-c-miracle-cures-for-all-20151219-glrib0.html http://www.9news.com.au/health/2015/12/20/08/14/federal-government-to-spend-1b-to-subsidise-breakthrough-hepatitis-c-cures First let me say…
Wednesday, 09 December 2015 08:48
Hetero gets DCGI nod for generic Harvoni under the brand name Ledisof
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HYDERABAD, DEC 8: Generic pharmaceutical company Hetero today announced that it has received the approval for the fixed-dose combination Ledipasvir-Sofosbuvir (90mg/400mg) from the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI). The drug, Ledisof, is a generic version of Gilead Sciences’ brand Harvoni which…
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An open letter to all members of Australian Cabinet If current medication pricing trends are allowed to continue then, when we finally invent a cure for cancer, you can almost guarantee it will be too expensive for all but the super rich…
Thursday, 03 December 2015 09:36
US lawmakers allege Gilead used "revenue-driven" pricing model for hepatitis C drugs
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A report released Tuesday by US Senators Ron Wyden and Charles Grassley claims that Gilead Sciences priced the hepatitis C treatments Sovaldi (sofosbuvir) and Harvoni (ledipasvir/sofosbuvir) with the sole goal of maximising revenue. The report was based on an investigation of 20…
In 1961, Polio Vaccine Inventor Jonas Salk explained his decision to make his invention freely available with the words "You can't patent the sun". 185,000,000 people are infected with Hepatitis C and since a cure was invented only 613,000 people have been…
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