Can anything be done for hepatitis C short of transplantation?
Yes. Several medications are being tried. The only drug that has been approved in the United States Food and Drug Administration is interferon. Studies have shown that about a third of patients with hepatitis C will show improvements in laboratory values after 6 months of treatment. However, it is not yet known if these improvements do anything to change the progression of the disease. No treatment studied to date has reversed the disease once it has reached end stage.
