IDENIX AND NOVARTIS GIVE UPDATE ON GLOBE STUDY
Idenix Pharmaceuticals and Novartis announced the results of the GLOBE study
at the 56th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver
Diseases, being held in San Francisco. Results from the ongoing study demonstrate
that the investigational drug telbivudine provides significantly greater response
on all evaluated virologic markers compared to lamivudine after one year, in
both HBeAg-positive and HBeAg-negative patients with chronic hepatitis B.
Patients treated with telbivudine achieved significantly greater viral suppression
than patients treated with lamivudine. Patients treated with telbivudine also
experienced significantly higher rates of non-detectable viral levels. The GLOBE
study, a Phase III clinical trial, includes 1,367 patients from 20 countries
and is the largest registration trial of chronic hepatitis B patients ever conducted.
The GLOBE study is the first global chronic hepatitis B registration trial to
include patients from China, where the disease is highly prevalent.
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