USA-based Biolex Therapeutics presented encouraging data from a Phase IIa trial of Locteron (controlled-release interferon alpha 2b) at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The PLUS trial was conducted in 32 chronic hepatitis C patients in the USA who had failed prior treatment. It was designed to evaluate the safety and tolerability of Locteron, and to directly compare it with pegylated interferon. Patients were randomized to receive either Locteron (administered once every two weeks) or US drug major Schering-Plough's PEG-Intron (pegylated interferon alfa-2a) once weekly.
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