Jump-Start on Slow Trek to Treatment for a Disease
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The search for new treatments can be tricky when the disease is fearsome but nearly forgotten because its victims are poor and obscure.
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Early tests are raising hopes that a new device can help people who've injured their spinal cord.
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Patients who suffer from a rare disease that causes continuous high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs received a new treatment choice Friday.
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After years of struggling to make anti-retrovirals available in the developing world, medical authorities have been startled to discover that many people in the advanced stages of AIDS are reluctant to take them -- or accept the treatment only when death is so near that the medication can no longer reverse the slide.
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This lung cancer drug is not as effective as once hoped.
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Authors of a public-health article in this week&#39;s issue of THE LANCET (p 1984) are calling for urgent international action to address the chronic lack of investment in human resources which is limiting the chance of tackling diseases such as HIV/AIDS
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It can be incredibly difficult for patients to ferret out studies of experimental drugs that offer hope to threat their disease. There is no comprehensive database of ongoing clinical trials, but specialists offer advice for the search:
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A new drug treatment for a debilitating heart problem affecting millions has been shown to improve survival rates and reduce hospitalizations in black Americans, the first study to discover a beneficial effect for one race.
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Two drugs provide good results in preliminary trials.
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Scientists have taken an important step towards a new way of treating disease by switching off key genes.
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The approval of a new drug is a long-term opportunity.
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Faced with the threat of generic competition, the company focuses its efforts on a new drug.
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A powerful new strategy promises to speed up the effort to link genes to specific diseases. Can you say 'transcriptome'?
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In todayÂs world of rapid-fire medicine, ÂinvolvedÂ relatives may be a patientÂs most important advocates.
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An experimental cancer drug made by Abbott Laboratories Inc. passed its first round of human testing about six months faster than usual, thanks to a new program that aims to speed drug development.
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Science & environment: Tens of thousands of children could be diagnosed earlier and more cheaply after pioneering research.
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Scientists say they may have found a new way to fight diseases like Aids and leukaemia.