Bristol-Myers Ties Hepatitis C Success to Gilead’s Pill

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Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. will try to grab an early share of the multibillion-dollar market for new hepatitis C treatments by piggybacking its experimental drug with Gilead Sciences Inc.’s approved pill.

Bristol-Myers and Gilead are among several companies developing hepatitis C therapies that rely on combinations of two or more drugs. Those regimens are being approved by regulators one drug at a time for a hepatitis C market analysts estimate may reach $100 billion over a decade.