On its own, Zadaxin works wonders on hep-B though it showed little promise with hep-C.
He was previously a Director of Research at the Higher Pedagogical Institute HEP-BEJUNE in Bienne (Switzerland).
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But early data suggest that in combination with interferon and ribavirin, cure rates for hep-C approach 60%.
Direct antiviral drugs for hep C are only now coming out after over a decade of work.
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Protease inhibitors shut down AIDS enzymes by locking onto readily available toeholds, but hep-C's protease is smooth.
Vertex has already surmounted an array of problems since it started working on hep C in 1993.
In the race pitting science against microbes, however, the spread of hep-C looks likely to outrun a cure.
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Some smaller biotechs hope to provide a third ingredient in a hep-C cocktail.
Unlike HIV, which lives in the nucleus of the cell, hep-C sets up shop outside the nucleus in the cytoplasm.
Separately they have little effect, but together they prevent hep-C from spreading by causing it to make defective virus cells.
Another approach to combating hep C is to stop the virus from replicating by attacking enzymes that let it do so.
Despite Michael Witt being sin-binned, Rhys Hanbury, Clinton Schifcofske and Hep Cahill stretched the Welsh side's advantage to 20-0 at half-time.
But as King points out, approval of Viread for hepatitis B will likely cannibalize sales of Gilead's existing hep B drug, Hepsera.
Vertex has a drug in the pipeline called telaprevir that it hopes will be the first in a new, more powerful generation of hep C treatments.
And a company called Romark Laboratories has come out of nowhere with data on an unheralded anti-parasite drug that seems effective on one hep C strain.
The Centers for Disease Control says up to 10, 000 people died from hep-C last year and that, by 2010, the annual death toll will overtake that of HIV.
Existing hep C treatments, based on bioengineered versions of the natural immune system protein alpha interferon, attack the virus indirectly and work half the time, at best, for the most common strain.
Neither did it hear grand jury evidence detailing the reckless practices at Desert Shadow, such as reusing cleaning fluids for surgical instruments, that easily could have spread Hep C among the patients.
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