Word: grayzel
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...Arthur I. Grayzel '53, senior vice president for medical affairs at the Atlanta-based Arthritis Foundation, estimated that under the best circumstances, the drug will not be on the market for three years...
Both Trentham and Grayzel warned arthritis patients against over-the-counter drugs based on collagen, the major constituent of the treatment. Although such drugs are available at pharmacies, they do not have the proper amount of collagen, a protein found in joint cartilage, and have not been tested clinically...
According to Grayzel, this approach to combating arthritis is particularly exciting. Feeding patients with a drug as opposed to injecting them, he said, is a novel approach which elicits a "profound immune response." The method, according to Grayzel, produced favorable results in laboratory studies on multiple sclerosis-afflicted patients conducted during the past year...
...looks as if something safe which is taken by mouth and gets to the heart of the disease seems to be effective," Grayzel said. "People are very interested in seeing what the next phase of the study shows...
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