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Bingfang Yan, professor of biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences in the College of Pharmacy, has made his reputation identifying adverse reactions among prescription medications. His studies often examine drugs that hit the marketplace as much-needed therapeutic breakthroughs and their interactions with medications typically prescribed along with them. His most recent study, reported in the December 2016 issue of the Journal of Hepatology, revealed that the highly effective Hepatitis C drug sofosbuvir (brand names Sovaldi, Harvoni, and EPCLUSA) can adversely interact with the HIV...

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