AbbVie has become the first company to receive permission to use an investigational treatment for hepatitis C under the UK’s early access to medicines scheme (EAMS), meaning the therapy can be made available to UK patients while it undergoes accelerated assessment for marketing throughout the EU.
Glecaprevir/pibrentasvir, a pan-genotypic, ribavirin-free regimen that AbbVie is developing as cure for hepatitis C virus, has received a