Not sick enough for pricey drugs? Phanie / Alamy Stock Photo
FOR six years Paul Fleming was infected with the hepatitis C virus which, left untreated, often leads to liver failure or cancer. Recently, a medicine became available that can eradicate the virus within a few weeks, but doctors couldn’t treat him because the 拢35,000 regimen was too costly for the UK’s National Health Service (NHS).
Finally, late last year Fleming had had enough. “You have a contagious disease and it always preys on your mind,” he says. So he took a radical step: with his doctor’s help…
