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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is the most common chronic blood-borne infection in the United States.¹ In most of the estimated 2.7 million people who have the infection it has not been diagnosed, and most of those with a diagnosed infection have not been treated. Because the best current medical therapy is expensive, complex, relatively ineffective, and fraught with side effects, many physicians are understandably reluctant to offer it to their patients. Without a highly effective therapy, the condition of patients with hepatitis C continues to deteriorate until complications of cirrhosis develop. The infection progresses to end-stage liver disease in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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