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Baraclude More Beneficial than Lamivudine for CHB

March 27, 2006
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) reported through its Japanese subsidiary Bristol-Myers K.K. on March 10 that an international collaborative study confirmed that its drug to treat chronic hepatitis B, Baraclude (entecavir), demonstrated greater benefits than lamivudine. Nucleoside-naive patients with HBe-antigen (HBeAg) positive…

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