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From: Frogger on 17 Apr 2008 16:07 More research, more studies, more tests... Saw this online on Wired Science, the link goes to a site that has a list of cities where participants are being recruited for a "Randomized, Double Blind (Subject, Investigator), Placebo Control, Parallel Assignment, Safety/Efficacy Study" http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/drug-companies.html Merck developed a new Hepatitis C medication which may make painful interferon treatments unnecessary. It works by gumming up a protease, which the virus uses to activate some of its building blocks by separating them from one another. The same strategy has been used to fight HIV for years, but every subtype of virus has a slightly different enzyme, so each requires a unique drug. Link: http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00518622?term=MK-7009&rank=1
From: Cactus Jammies on 17 Apr 2008 19:20 very interesting. i wonder when some of these potential novel treatments are going to be given the fast track for those of us who are getting along in years? cactus jammies "Frogger" <soapwaffle(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:252da45f-4f40-432d-a1c4-3e54f9875bdf(a)a23g2000hsc.googlegroups.com... > More research, more studies, more tests... > > Saw this online on Wired Science, the link goes to a site that has a > list of cities where participants are being recruited for a > "Randomized, Double Blind (Subject, Investigator), Placebo Control, > Parallel Assignment, Safety/Efficacy Study" > > http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/drug-companies.html > > Merck developed a new Hepatitis C medication which may make painful > interferon treatments unnecessary. It works by gumming up a protease, > which the virus uses to activate some of its building blocks by > separating them from one another. The same strategy has been used to > fight HIV for years, but every subtype of virus has a slightly > different enzyme, so each requires a unique drug. > > Link: http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00518622?term=MK-7009&rank=1 >
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