The panel voted 10 to 3 in favor of approving the drug for that disease.
John Martin, Gilead chief executive, catapulted the company to the top of the biotech industry with his wise acquisitions in HIV, allowing the first single-pill combination treatments for that disease.
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Even though some doctors have been using Avastin to treat age-related macular degeneration, Genentech developed and received FDA approval in 2006 for Lucentis, a new drug specifically designed for that disease.
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The idea is that when a critical proportion of a group is immune to a disease, too few individuals are susceptible for that disease to be passed from one to another.
But experts warn that even for that disease, which is only one way in which a natural disaster can damage the mind, the rates could be far higher, based on other cases in which patients had to face a terrifying calamity.
These carrier screenings involve identifying individuals who carry one copy of a gene for a disease that requires two copies for the disease to be expressed in a child.
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Even if they are effective, vaccines may face stiff resistance from parents who are urged to let their 11-year-old daughter get a shot against a sexually transmitted disease or told that their son needs one for a disease that is likely never to harm him.
Some funds could be allocated to fund research to refine procedures for emergency treatment of players with that disease or for that matter, heart abnormalities.
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Another reason for expecting that disease-related genes would be recently evolved is that the older a gene is, the more likely it is that errors and weaknesses that could lead to disease will have been eliminated by natural selection.
Weighing the proof that high CRP is a risk factor for heart disease that should be treated will have to wait until the study's results are analyzed and presented.
It remains the most potent drug for a disease that is on the rise around the world.
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For example, for every disease that still plagues us, another has been cured or made less harmful through a steadfast scientific dedication to improving lives.
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Glaxo started a rare disease unit recently and in a press call today said it was licensing a gene therapy for a disease that hits just 350 kids in the world.
Best of all would be a vaccine, which does not yet exist, at least in part because profit-driven drug firms have little incentive to invent one for a disease that affects mainly poor people.
While the conventional wisdom is that treatment for disease should be undertaken whenever possible (bear in mind that in the early days of AIDS treatment, not everyone supported treatment among the poor), it is clear that some of the best results come from preventive tactics.
"It could well be that what works for one disease will turn out to work for another, even though that wasn't the original intent, " he said.
However, encouraging results from the first clinical drug trial for children with progeria has researchers hopeful that the first treatment for the disease could be on the horizon.
But one of the issue if you have with that is for disease and pests, if you want to have crop rotation which when you only have one place to grow something it's kind of like, am I going to take three years off growing tomatoes.
Do you think that is what produced all the treatments for HIV that allow people with this disease to now live normal life expectancies?
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And I think that treatment for cancer or treatment for heart disease or stroke or many of the diseases that a healthy lifestyle can either prevent or delay is very time consuming and painful and costly.
Wall Street is bracing for one of the biggest new drug categories in a decade: the launch of a series of antiviral medicines that could dramatically improve the cure rate for hepatitis C, a viral disease that slowly attacks the liver and is often fatal.
That's when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported finding a nasty infection that hit more than 100 pedicure patients.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the odds of a person contracting mad cow disease, even after consuming contaminated products, are less than one in 10 billion.
One of the lessons is the value of looking for new uses of drugs that have already been developed for some other disease and are already known to be safe in humans.
He entered the field to search for treatments for diabetes, a disease that afflicts his 10-year-old son.
The good news is, the Centers for Disease Control projects that you will live another 19 years or so.
The Centers for Disease Control reports that in 2009 Latino men had two and a half times the rate of estimated new infections compared to white men.
In 2008, the Centers for Disease Control reported that measles outbreaks had spiked because more parents were deciding to leave their children unvaccinated, thanks to the burgeoning anti-vaccine movement.
Results in non-small cell lung cancer show that Abraxane does shrink tumors 31% better than Taxol, which the company says should be enough for an FDA approval in that disease.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control found that only about a third of Americans consumed fruits twice a day and only a quarter ate vegetables at least three times daily.
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