That stigma -- that people believe AIDS is a gay or drug-related disease -- remains prevalent, she says.
Mr Speaker was found to have a rare strain of tuberculosis, and the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) says the risk of contracting the drug-resistant disease is low.
"Most of us agree this virus is not a single-drug disease, " says Dr. Jeffrey Crippin of Washington University School of Medicine in St.
Its shares tumbled 3.6% in Zurich as the company said it had stopped a trial of heart-disease drug dalcetrapib after disappointing data.
The barriers for companies to enter the rare-disease drug market are already high, he says, and families don't want to make it even more difficult by arguing over natural-history studies.
They account for three-quarters of the neglected-disease drug projects.
San Diego is Pfizer's center for structure-based drug design, which uses computers to map disease-causing proteins and suggests ways to thwart them.
WHO, which is starting, in collaboration with Merck and SmithKline Beecham, a massive drug-donation programme for the disease.
Meanwhile, the patients suffer and sometimes die, all the while potentially spreading drug-resistant forms of the disease to other people.
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Once she was infected, though, the disease became drug-resistant inside her body.
Abilify, from Otsuka and Bristol-Myers Squibb, passed Seroquel from Astra as the top-selling antipsychotic drug for disease like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression.
That, he says, is exactly what would be needed for the drug to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a disease-modifying agent, not just a treatment of symptoms.
In 2000 King acquired a research outfit that is working on an injectable stress-test drug for heart disease suspects who are unable to hit the treadmill to get their heart rate up.
Forty-one per cent of those who said they did have enough information about drug treatments still did not take a disease-modifying treatment.
This is particularly important given the emergence of multi-drug resistant strains of the disease.
Almost half of patients with the multi-drug resistant form of the disease die.
On October 13th a study published in Science Translational Medicine revealed that early-stage trials show a new tuberculosis vaccine may work against drug-resistant strains of that killer disease.
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Mr. Patch would surely agree that a major effort to preventing war and human suffering must be to support continued medical research, especially to ameliorate emerging epidemics such as worldwide "Lyme Disease", drug-resistant malaria and tuberculosis, and parasitism.
In an added bonus, a smaller version of the molecule could be effective in an age-related eye disease. (A drug from Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) will reach the market first.) FDA approval of Avastin is expected by late March, but could come sooner.
The goal: a drug against osteoporosis, the brittle-bone disease that afflicts 25 million older Americans, mostly women.
Drug therapy with alpha-interferon slows the disease, but side effects are so severe that many can't bear it.
In 1999 Isis' (nasdaq: ISIS - news - people ) long-awaited drug for Crohn's disease, a severe intestinal disorder, failed to outperform a sugar pill in a pivotal test with 300 patients.
HGS' best shot at a breakthrough is a new drug that targets lupus, the auto-immune disease that afflicts half a million Americans.
The hormone was prepared from human pituitary glands recovered from cadavers, and the absence of rigorous collection guidelines and purification procedures permitted contamination of the formulated drug with the agent that causes Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, the human equivalent of "mad-cow disease, " or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
Wyeth, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, created a myostatin-blocking drug and put it into clinical trials for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a muscle-wasting disease that kills hundreds of men each year before they reach their mid-thirties.
Recently-delayed approvals include a new drug designed to slow the effects of Lou Gehrig's disease, the french abortion pill RU-486, and new uses for thalidomide, which caused serious birth defects when first introduced in the 1950's.
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On July 5th, South Africa's highest court ordered the government to stop blocking the universal provision of an anti-AIDS drug at public hospitals to prevent the disease being transmitted from mothers to children.
Judge Letts saw Michael not as a hopeless, drug-using criminal, but as an individual with a disease in need of help.
Others tackled heart disease, stroke, and drug abuse and HIV - all of which disproportionately affect the black community.
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