entecavir

Challenges in Entecavir Drug Treatment

According to a new report in the New England Journal of Medicine,treating hepatitis B patients with the drug entecavir can cause those who are also infected with HIV to become resistant to two of the most important drugs in the anti-HIV arsenal. the researchers reported that a patient infect...

Standard Hepatitis B Treatment Bested by Newcomer

...roblem is that people can develop resistance to these drugs. Two new drugs, entecavir (Baraclude) and telbivudine, have been approved to treat hepatitis B since ...ther new hepatitis B medication, entecavir, in a randomized clinical trial. entecavir has also been shown to be more effective than lamivudine and creates less r...

Widely Used Hepatitis B Drug Spurs HIV Drug Resistance

...IV. Their findings demonstrate that treatment with entecavir leads to cross-resistance to other antiviral drugs...treat the AIDS virus. “Our results show that entecavir is no different from any other that has been shown...tified Bristol-Myers Squibb, which makes and sells entecavir under the brand name Baraclude. “The alert ...

entecavir in Medical Technology

Pharmasset Reports Fiscal Year End 2008 Financial Results

...vudine to treat hepatitis B (HBV), including its use in lamivudine resistant patients. Data from one study suggested that clevudine is as effective as entecavir (Baraclude(R)) and that it can be effectively used in combination with adefovir (Hepsera(R)). Management believes the unique attributes of clevudine w...

ANA380 Exhibits Activity In Vitro Against Multiple Clinically Relevant Hepatitis B Virus Mutants

...(HBV) which are resistant to lamivudine, adefovir, entecavir or telbivudine, during a poster presentation at th...tants that were resistant to lamivudine, adefovir, entecavir or telbivudine was not significantly different fro...that have been associated with clinical failure to entecavir or telbivudine, respectively, showed only small de...

Pharmasset Presents Clevudine and Racivir Data at the International HIV Drug Resistance Workshop

...heir first-line HIV therapy. Anti-HIV Activity and Resistance Profiles of entecavir Compared to Clevudine Zennou V, Keilman M, Otto MJ, Furman P Study Conclusion: Clevudine does not inhibit HIV in vitro. We have confirmed that entecavir has activity against wild type HIV-1 virus and that the M184V mutation conf...

entecavir in Biological News

Widely used hepatitis B drug spurs HIV drug resistance

...V. Their findings demonstrate that treatment with entecavir leads to cross-resistance to other antiviral drugs... to treat the AIDS virus. "Our results show that entecavir is no different from any other that has been shown...tified Bristol-Myers Squibb, which makes and sells entecavir under the brand name Baraclude. "The alert s...

entecavir in Biological Technology

XTL Biopharmaceuticals Signs $108 Million Deal for the Licensing of its Pre- Clinical Program in Hepatitis C to Presidio Pharmaceuticals

... a major contributor to the discovery and advancement of several antiviral drug candidates into clinical trials, two of which, atazanavir for HIV, and entecavir for Hepatitis B, are currently approved drugs." Ron Bentsur, XTL's CEO commented: "We are excited about this licensing transaction with a motivated ...