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Single-day treatment found to shorten duration of recurrent genital herpes outbreaks

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, January 29th, 2006

Results from a new study demonstrated that a single day of treatment with the antiviral Famvir (famciclovir) stopped the progression to a full outbreak or shortened the duration of an outbreak in patients with recurrent genital herpes (RGH).

The research, presented at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), also showed that Famvir significantly reduced the duration of RGH symptoms including the itching, pain, burning, tingling and tenderness in patients with lesions versus placebo.

Based on these findings, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation filed a supplemental new drug application (sNDA) with the U.S. Food and...

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