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Telaprevir & Boceprevir for Hepatitis C

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Uploaded by on Apr 26, 2011

Video by internationally renowned liver disease specialist Melissa Palmer, M.D. on Telaprevir (Vertex Pharmaceuticals) & Boceprevir (Merck), the new protease inhibitor treatments for hepatitis C (HCV).
Dr. Palmer is the author of the best-selling book "Dr. Melissa Palmer's Guide to Hepatitis & Liver Disease." Her website is www.liverdisease.com

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  • Thank you for this very important information.

  • This is a great video

  • some great inforamtion here thanks

  • Thank you Dr. Palmer for this awesome information, I am a patient advocate for Hep C and I've shared this on my website Hep C Out Of Bounds thank you Kat

  • really informative and interesting

  • I listened to you closely about what you said at about 4:05 in about resistant strains and missing takeing a pill, plus your compromiseing yourself for several years in the future. After 48 weeks of peg-interferon & ribirvirin I wont be led down that road again with this new booster. Thank you however for letting the facts be known and I think the people who have been crowing in under a year after treatment they have cleared the virus are mostly misstaken. The fat lady sings after a full year

  • I'm a former 1a who treated with Ribavirin and Interferon only. With Telaprevir, I understand it's every 8 hours ON THE DOT and with Boceprevir, is it just more flexible on timing as long as it's 3 times per day?

  • These protease inhibitors should enhance the treatment of Hepatitis C.

    There are very interesting clinical studies being done on the grapefruit flavonoid, naringenin. This chemical has also removed the Hepatitis C virus and does not have the side effects of Interferon.

    Hopefully continued research will give us a range of treatments.

    After all treatments, viral tests need to be done for many years following the treatment. I suspect that Hepatitis C will reappear 50% of the time.

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