Yesterday, we covered two new developments that offer hope for fighting hepatitis C. The first was a new rapid blood tests which could give results in as few as five minutes.
The second development was Abbott Laboratories reporting positive results from a mid-stage clinical trial of an experimental drug regimen to clear the virus.
ACSH s Dr. Josh Bloom notes that Abbott's four drug, interferon-free cocktail is turning hepatitis C into the New York Yankees impotent and powerless. He calls the drug cocktail an amazing pharmaceutical success story in a recent op-ed featured in Medical Progress Today.