It is important to know, not every chronic HBV patient needs to be on medication. Other patients with active signs of liver disease may benefit the most from treatment. Be sure to talk to your doctor about whether you could benefit from treatment and discuss the treatment options. There are several promising new drugs for hepatitis B in the experimental stage. Some are still being tested in the laboratory.
Doctors carefully select their patients to test new drugs.
They keep close track of these patients while they are taking the drug. The goal is to make sure the drug is safe and that it works. Clinical trials must be done before any new drug can be approved for general use and this can take many years. We keep track of drugs that are in the research phase and also in clinical trials. Please check our Drug Watch Chart .