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Author Topic: CVS Study: 1 in 12 Don't Adhere to Sovaldi Treatment  (Read 6827 times)

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CVS Study: 1 in 12 Don't Adhere to Sovaldi Treatment
« on: September 23, 2014, 10:59:30 am »
While it's not surprising that people are adhering less to hep C treatment in the real world than in closely monitored clinical studies, here's something to note:

More than 8 percent of patients taking Sovaldi (sofosbuvir), the latest hepatitis C virus drug from Gilead Sciences, do not complete the full 12-week course of treatment.

So far, pharmacy data collected by CVS over the past nine months shows that the dropout rate has been roughly four times that observed in clinical trials.

Read more: http://www.hepmag.com/articles/cvs_sovaldi_adherence_study_2831_26200.shtml

 


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