Baraclude is approved in the United States to treat patients with chronic hepatitis B in adults who have active virus and liver damage.

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In a New York magazine story, she describes living in Indonesia in her early 20s, where she suffered hepatitis, had her leg operated on without benefit of anesthesia, and almost fell into an active volcano.

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