Gilead: Hepsera Reduces Virus Levels
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Biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences Inc. reported Tuesday that clinical data on its hepatitis B treatment Hepsera showed that the drug reduced the virus to undetectable levels in more than half the patients on the drug after more than two years.
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In test results eagerly awaited by doctors and Wall Street, Vertex Pharmaceuticals plans to release data that shows its experimental drug to treat hepatitis C has a 60 percent cure rate.
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HIV drug Viracept has been recalled because "human error" led to a higher than normal level of a chemical which can cause cancer.  (c) 2007 Liverpool Echo. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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SAN FRANCISCO Engineers at Hewlett-Packard are working on what they call virus-throttling software that could slow the spread of viruses and worms, possibly limiting the destruction that hackers inflict on millions of computers each year.
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People who took a drug to reduce outbreaks of genital herpes were not any less likely to become infected with the AIDS virus, an international team of researchers reported on Monday.
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Statin drugs that lower cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of heart disease may also help slow down the AIDS virus, Spanish researchers reported on Monday.
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A course of injections of alpha-interferon (Intron-A) seems to improve penile curvature and sexual satisfaction in men with Peyronie's disease, American urologists reported here on Wednesday at the meeting of the International Society for Sexual and Impotence Research.
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Injecting blood or bone marrow cells into people who have just received a donated kidney can reduce the need for drugs that suppress the immune system, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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ViroPharma completes preliminary enrollment in a study of one of its drug candidates.
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Methotrexate, used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis, may also reduce the risk of atherosclerosis and circulatory diseases affecting the heart and brain, investigators have found.
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Scientists have shown they can reduce cholesterol levels in mice by shutting off a disease-causing gene with a technique called RNA interference.
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Male circumcision halved a man's  risk of being infected by the virus that causes AIDS in  heterosexual intercourse, according to results of two large  clinical trials in Kenya and Uganda announced on Wednesday.
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LOS ANGELES (CBS.MW) -- Shares of Gilead Sciences climbed Thursday, touching a 52-week high at one point, after the biotechnology firm reported positive results from its recently approved HIV drug Truvada.
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CAMBRIDGE -- Three-year-old Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc. already has seen its share of milestones. Its scientists cloned the first Heparin sugar-degrading enzyme, a breakthrough in understanding the role of complex sugars as a conduit for viruses and diseases. Its executives recruited medical luminaries like M. Judah Folkman and Eugene Braunwald to the company's scientific advisory board.
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Gilead Sciences Inc. GILD.O on  Thursday said its quarterly net profit rose 55 percent on  increased sales of its HIV drugs.
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Clinical trial data released by pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim at the 44th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in Washington, DC, on its experimental protease inhibitor tipranavir show that the drug is effective
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Two international studies of a new drug, telbivudine, have produced potentially good news for hepatitis B patients, showing that it suppresses the virus that damages the liver faster and better than other treatments.