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AIDS Drug OKd to Fight Hepatitis B

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From Times Wire Reports

Sufferers of liver-destroying hepatitis B gained their first oral treatment: a drug that in higher doses is used to fight the AIDS virus. The Food and Drug Administration approved a lower dose of Glaxo Wellcome Inc.’s 3TC, or lamivudine, as a way to protect against the liver damage caused by chronic hepatitis B.

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