The new additions represent a diverse grab bag of novel attempts at treating disease.
Yet those medicines often represent the most cost-effective approach to preventing and treating disease.
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Breakthroughs in medicine do not always produce a new approach that completely overshadows the older way of treating disease.
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He has always been interested in treating disease: When he got his Ph.
He believed it could solve the world's ills, from providing cheap energy to providing new ways of detecting and treating disease.
Stem-cell research dates to 1981 and started out with mouse embryos, which researchers used to study the effects of individual genes and to try treating disease in mice.
To prove the importance of the JAK pathway, someone needed to discover a compound to test the hypothesis that inhibiting the JAK enzyme was of value in treating disease.
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The deal will allow federally funded researchers access to five stem cell lines created there three years ago at no cost, as long as they use them for teaching research, not for treating disease or developing commercial products.
The idea of treating disease by replacing a defective gene with a working copy gained credence in 1990 with the success of the world's first gene therapy clinical tests against a rare condition called severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID).
That agency mainly acts to ensure that products are made according to good manufacturing practices, which include potency, cleanliness, and stability, that ingredients are generally safe, and that companies are not making unsubstantiated claims about curing or treating disease.
They're quite convinced in Korea, as a lot of scientists around the world are, that cloned embryos will wield cloned stem cells and that these cloned embryonic stem cells will become extremely important both for understanding disease and perhaps even treating disease.
The scientists said the drugs combination is a cheap and effective way of treating the disease.
We all realized that our lives had changed, the lives of patients had changed, the way of treating the disease had changed.
Treating the disease could eat up a soyabean farmer's entire yearly profit.
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What is the cost of currently treating the disease this drug targets?
The study could open new avenues for treating heart disease, aside from being a marketing coup for Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical, which makes Actos.
About a dozen years ago, a team of Merck scientists met with upper management to discuss a new approach for treating cardiovascular disease.
Embryonic stem cells have great potential for treating human disease because of their ability to generate almost all the cell types found in the adult body.
After all, they have been involved in the design and outcome of the trials, and they can speak to its value and potential in treating this disease.
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As doctors get better and better at treating heart disease, it is getting much more difficult to tell if a new heart medicine is having a real benefit.
Catching and treating the disease early could help save lives.
In a surprise move, Shire Pharmaceuticals has ended its bid for FDA approval for its Replagal biologic for treating Fabry disease, a rare, but life-threatening genetic disorder.
It played a key role in the development of Velcade and Revlimid, two of the biggest advances in treating the disease, which is diagnosed in 20, 000 patients a year.
Louis, found that a 25% stronger dose of radiation used to treat patients with one type of lung cancer were more dangerous for the patients -- and less effective in treating the disease.
These drugs, including Merck's Vioxx and Celebrex, which is made by Pharmacia and Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ), have also been suggested as possibly useful in treating the disease.
Elan and American Home Products have ended trials of their Alzheimer's vaccine--once seen as one of the most promising new approaches to treating the disease--after 15 patients suffered a potentially serious side effect: swelling of the central nervous system.
The other benefit of using the microchip is that it can be equipped with biosensors, which means that a doctor can monitor how effectively the drug is treating the disease, and remotely program the device according to adjust to changing circumstances.
"But even if we upgraded those systems, the lack of a really effective vaccine, the lack of better and faster drugs that shorten treatment to a reasonable time and the lack of good drugs for treating resistant disease -- make it hard for any health care system to effectively deal with the disease, " he said.
For instance, Pargluva hits both the alpha and gamma versions, treating both heart disease and diabetes.
When you consider the costs of treating the dreaded disease, funding through biotech research is key.
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