Among all developed nations, Americans pay the highest prices for prescription drugs. Here are the main reasons prescription drugs are so expensive in America. The cost of prescription medication in the U.S. has been on the rise for years. Between 2019 and 2020 , the price of most prescription...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment Mavyret (glecaprevir, pibrentasvir), granting biopharmaceutical firm AbbVie Breakthrough Therapy Designation and Priority Review for the treatment of GT1 HCV patients not cured with prior direct-acting...

A new hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment is expected to appear in pharmacies soon following US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) decision to approve Vosevi, an HCV treatment developed by Gilead Sciences, Inc. The drug was cleared to treat adults with chronic HCV genotypes 1-6 with no cirrhosis,...

The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the drug Stivarga (regorafinib) for treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) or liver cancer. It is the first FDA-approved treatment for this condition in nearly a decade. Developed by Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Stivarga is already...

Two medications for treating the hepatitis C virus (HCV) have been granted US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approval for use on children. Sovaldi (sofosbuvir) and Harvoni (ledipasivir and sofosbuvir) are already prescribed to adults but are the first HCV medications given approval for...