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New Hepatitis C Drugs Earn FDA Approval

The FDA has just approved Victrelis and Incivek, drugs that directly inhibit viral replication of the most common strain of Hepatitis C virus. Although the number of new infections has decreased steeply over the last 20 years, Hepatitis is still very prevalent in the U.S. population. According to the CDC, over 3 million Americans live [...]

New Hepatitis C Drugs Earn FDA Approval

Helicobacter Pylori and Gastric Ulcers

For a long time it was believed that the causes of gastric ulcers were diet and stress. This was recently disproven with the discovery that 70-90% of stomach ulcers were in fact caused by a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori). Usually the high acid content of the stomach does not allow bacteria to survive. [...]

Helicobacter Pylori and Gastric Ulcers
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