New antivirals for Hepatitis C - what does the evidence prove? - a podcast by BMJ Group
from 2018-05-12T11:44:15
There’s been a lot of attention given to the new antirviral drugs which target Hepatitis C - partly because of the burden of infection of the disease, and the lack of a treatment that can be made easily accessible to around the world, and partly because of the incredible cost of a course of treatment.
But a new article on BMJ talks about the uncertainly of that treatment - do we know that the drugs actually clear a HepC infection, and that this will lead to a corresponding decrease in mortality and morbidity?Janus Jakobsen from the Copenhagen Clinical Trial Unit joins us to discuss what the literature proves.
Read the full article:
https://www.bmj.com/content/361/bmj.k1382
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