Hepatitis B Virus
PEGINTRON Approved in China for Treating Chronic Hepatitis B
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, April 29th, 2007
Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP) today announced that PEGINTRON(TM) (peginterferon alfa-2b) has been approved by the Chinese State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) for the treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis B, the most prevalent infectious disease in China and one of the country's leading causes of death. There are 120 million chronic carriers of the hepatitis B virus in China and each year more than 330,000 people die in China due to hepatitis B-related complications, including cirrhosis and liver cancer.
PEGINTRON is administered once weekly at an individualized dose according to a patient's weight and is the only pegylated interferon indicated in...
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