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Hepatitis C treatment receives new indication in Europe

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, December 6th, 2004

Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has approved Pegasys for the treatment of hepatitis C patients with persistently normal liver enzymes.

The company said that this extension of the current label is based on the results of a study that showed combination therapy with Pegasys eradicated the virus (sustained virological response) in more than half of this patient group. Under current treatment guidelines, hepatitis C patients with normal liver enzymes would not normally be eligible for treatment.

According to the announcement, the EMEA has recognized that patients who have normal alanine...

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