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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Mixing cells and eggs to be allowed in search for new medical treatments.
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It's running trials to see if the drug can be used in earlier stages of cancer.
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A new program to provide low-cost drugs to people with cancer and other serious illnesses has fallen far short of expectations.
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With the Walk for Diabetes today in Portsmouth, the search for a cure for the more than a million Americans who have Type 1 diabetes comes into focus.
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Now might be a great time to load up on cutting-edge drug makers.
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Kidney exchanges are helping doctors shorten transplant waiting lists, but they also pose serious challenges.
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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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First patients to take trial living without medication.
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Importing cheaper drugs from up north isn't as simple as it seems
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As local officials struggled to account for the dead and missing, another challenge began to loom: heading off disease.
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Tuberculosis may reach the point where most new cases in some countries are resistant to many drugs unless far greater efforts are made now.
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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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Global health leaders meeting in Mexico this week want nations of the world to spend more on medical research, not only to develop new cures but to make those now on the market available to the poor.
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There's encouraging news about an enzyme replacement drug.
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Two potentially new classes of anti-HIV drugs have the medical world excited. But progress on a vaccine is still slow  -  and drugs can't do everything
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A drug that helps the immune system attack lung cancer cells may improve survival time.