The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Abbvie's hepatitis C treatment Mavyret.
Mavyret is intended to treat adults with all types of chronic hepatitis C virus with mild or no cirrhosis who have not previously received treatment for the illness. Patients with moderate to severe kidney disease, individuals on dialysis and genotype 1 patients unsuccessfully treated with a different drug are also eligible for treatment.
Mavyret represents the first drug for all hepatitis C genotypes with an eight-week treatment duration. Previously, the standard treatment length for the disease was at least 12 weeks.
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