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Combining Certain Hepatitis C Treatments with Amiodarone can be Dangerous, FDA Says

combining hepatitis drugs could be dangerousThe FDA has warned that combining hepatitis C treatments containing sofosbuvir with the antiarrhythmic drug amiodarone can result in serious slowing of the heart rate. These treatments include the hepatitis C drug Harvoni, as well as any treatments that combine the drug Sovaldi with another direct-acting antiviral agent. The FDA is adding information about serious slowing of the heart rate to the labels of Harvoni and Sovaldi, and ...

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