Reviewed by Arefa Cassoobhoy, MD, MPH
Nov. 10, 2015 -- In an ecstatic post to her Instagram followers yesterday, Pamela Anderson revealed that she’s been cured of hepatitis C.
She’s short on specifics, but tells other people who are infected not to lose hope and promises that the cure she got “will be more available soon.”
Is she right?
To find out, we reached out to Raymond Schinazi, PhD. He’s the director of the Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology at Emory University in Atlanta.
Schinazi has had a hand in developing five lifesaving antiviral drugs, including sofosbuvir (Sovaldi), one of several new treatments that can wipe out hepatitis C infections in nearly everybody who takes them. (He reportedly made $440 million when he sold the rights to that drug to the pharmaceutical company Gilead.)
No comments:
Post a Comment