"Coronaviruses are not new and nor are the infections caused by them. Each year around 1 in 4 of the things we call “common colds” are caused by four other coronaviruses" Dr James Freeman #auspol
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Patients in New Zealand now have universal access to PHARMAC funded Maviret. If you are from NZ and have Hep C please see your GP and get treated. Chances are you will feel 10 years younger post 8 weeks of daily pills. https://t.co/cUsYIGL4UU
Is anyone surprised? After all this is a company who have been flagged for putting unapproved ingredients into their own medications... https://t.co/Rgj1T9FkeA
A study has just been published in the Lancet which looked at what happened to about 10,000 patients treated (or not) with the new Hep C medications. As expected they lived longer and healthier lives... https://t.co/GxjVSajLmL
So AASLD and EASL has a combined USA/European HCV conference and guess what? Somebody else has finally mentioned the elephant in the room - the $1000 a tablet price... https://t.co/h18yaLDFrs
Have you ever wondered how drug companies justify their prices? Here's how health economists look at the world https://t.co/cT6SwQ7iAm https://t.co/cT6SwQ7iAm
Recently there was a combined AASLD/EASL meeting about Hepatitis and its elimination. Here's an overview of where we are, and, in essence, how far behind we are in this quest... https://t.co/PkZTrIUO1o