Researchers Focus on Combination Drug to Remove Hepatitis Virus

Liver specialists and researchers globally are working on new treatment options including a combination drug that would ensure complete eradication of hepatitis virus.

The World Hepatitis Day on July 28 was launched in 2007 to annually observe the birthday of Nobel Laureate Prof. Blumberg, discoverer of the hepatitis B. The theme for 2011 is "This is hepatitis" campaign which was also observed last year.

Antivirals, Immunoglobins and Interferons are the current treatment options available to treat the hepatitis. But with new causes of hepatitis driven by obesity, tattoo piercing drugs and alcohol consumption, the disease is now becoming a challenge to treat. Liver specialists and researchers globally are working on new treatment options including a combination drug that would ensure complete eradication of hepatitis virus.

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