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Safer, better medication for Hepatitis B identified
Washington: Hepatitis B patients who didn't respond to the common treatment of lamivudine might get better and safer results with another drug called entecavir, a new study has found. Chronic Hepatitis B is the 10th leading cause of death worldwide. Patients are likely to develop serious liver diseases like cirrhosis and liver cancer, especially if they have high levels of HB virus (HBV) DNA in their