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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What began as an Internet search evolved into a journey: Massimo Facchini traveling from Italy to Staten Island University Hospital to get what he hoped would be a miracle cure for his cancer.
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A new therapy shows glimpses of promise, but proving a benefit in heart patients could be hard.
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It&#39;s the time of year when people start thinking about getting a flu shot. A manufacturing problem had delayed shipments intended to arrive over the summer.
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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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Researchers have hit on what may be an inexpensive way to prevent death from infections in children with HIV until anti-retroviral drugs become affordable in the developing world.
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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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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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The pharmaceutical enlists help to thwart a troublesome illness.
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Now might be a great time to load up on cutting-edge drugmakers.
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Discovery will speed research into incurable diseases such as diabetes and Parkinson's, and bring closer the mass production of body tissue to replace that damaged by disease.
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A four-year study is to test if treatment for tuberculosis can be speeded up using a combination of drugs.
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A drug has been found to slow a common cause of vision loss - and even improve sight in some patients.
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A drug widely used to treat H.I.V. infection may also be effective in fighting cancer, a new study suggests, and a human trial of the medicine is already under way.
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Researchers are making headway developing West Nile virus treatments and vaccines, but questions remain as to whether these remedies to the emerging and somewhat
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It may not be too late to break out the sneakers and run or walk your way through Patriots Square Park for today&#39;s Susan G. Komen Phoenix Race for the Cure.
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Mixing cells and eggs to be allowed in search for new medical treatments.