Johnson & Johnson-Medivir AB's Drug Works Against Hepatitis C

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Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)’s and Medivir AB (MVIRB)’s experimental hepatitis C treatment is safe and effective, U.S. regulators said, providing a boost to the companies as they try to reach a highly competitive market for new treatments. The drug known as simeprevir helps cure patients of the infectious disease that can lead to a liver transplant, Food and Drug Administration staff said in a review today ahead of an Oct. 24 meeting of agency advisers to discuss the medicine. The FDA is scheduled to decide whether to approve simeprevir for sale by Nov. 27.

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