Giving pricey hepatitis drug to prisoners may be financially wise

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Giving pricey hepatitis drug to prisoners may be financially wise

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Using expensive new antivirals to treat hepatitis C in prisoners makes fiscal sense, a new paper says. Based on computer models, new pricey drug combinations were more cost-effective than older drug combinations and no treatment at all, researchers found. ?Essentially what our model does is follow a hypothetical cohort of prisoners that looks like a prison population in the U.S.,? Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert told Reuters Health. ...

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