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Positive hepatitis C, hepatitis B treatment results released

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, May 5th, 2003

Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Inc., presented positive preclinical results of NM283, its hepatitis C virus (HCV) clinical drug candidate, at the 11th International Symposium on Viral Hepatitis & Liver Disease in Sydney, Australia.

NM283, a ribonucleoside analog being developed as an oral, once-daily treatment, appeared to be well tolerated and after 1 week of treatment reduced mean viral load by over 90% (1 log10) in a primate model of human chronic HCV infection.

Idenix also presented 24-week data from an ongoing phase IIb trial of telbivudine (LdT) for the treatment of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, further demonstrating its promising safety and...

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