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...Sydney neurologist Matthew Kiernan. "The specialist didn't like looking after these patients because he knew he had nothing to offer them." There were cracks of light in the 1990s, when researchers implicated a genetic mutation in a small subset of MND patients, and the pharmaceutical company Rhone-Poulenc Rorer launched riluzole (Rilutek), the first - and still only - drug approved for treating the disease. But no one was fooled into thinking that MND was anywhere near beaten...
...that the medical center has been aggressively pursuing in recent years. Last fall Duke opened a new 10,000-sq.-ft. laboratory, a set of "clean rooms" where cell cultures can be cultivated in sterile surroundings. The $1.5 million facility was paid for by the pharmaceutical giant Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, based in Collegeville, Pa. But this particular deal is unusual in that the company has no commercial claim on any products developed through the use of the new lab. Sue Strauss is one of 18 Duke patients in Lyerly's trial, one of several vaccine tests approved by the Food...
...Whenever antibiotics are used indiscriminately, mildly resistant bacteria survive and breed with one another, creating increasingly resistant germs. Pharmaceutical companies are racing to create new antibiotics that can replace vancomycin as the drug of last recourse. The leading candidate: Synercid, an experimental drug being developed by Rhone-Poulenc Rorer. Tests show that it should defeat even vancomycin-resistant staphylococci--at least until a tougher strain of bacteria evolves...
...Social Studies, Kirkland House; Army E. Margolin, American Literature, Mather House; Brooke A. Masters, History, Mather House; Elizabethg L. Matera, Literature, Mather House; Martha L. Moore, Religion, Lowell House; Penelope C. Papailias, American Literature, Eliot House; Annie Penn, Biology, Dunster House; Lisa P. Reiss, Psychology, Winthrop House; Kathryn E. Rorer, American Literature, Eliot House; Elizabeth Safran, Geological Sciences, Cabot House; Heidi M.V. Sullivan, Anthropology, Lowell House; and Celia M. Wren. Literature, Quincy House...
...lightweight four was comprised of coxswain Rorer, stroke Hye-Jin Lim, three Sarah Allums, two Allison Pugh, and bow Honig...