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The Hepatitis Drug Market Is Worse Than Wall Street Realizes

Analysts haven't gotten the message, but some drugmakers have.
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And then there were three.

Johnson & Johnson and Merck & Co. Inc. have both recently halted development of drugs to treat hepatitis C (HCV), with no plans to work on any others. This capitulation leaves the market largely split between Gilead Sciences Inc., AbbVie Inc., and a drug Merck already has on the market.