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...wonder the White House is upset. "By appearing to be willing to treat the economy as just another political football, they send the wrong signal to the markets about the seriousness with which they take their economic stewardship," Clinton national economic adviser Gene Sperling said Thursday...
...tissues. Ailments as diverse as psoriasis, multiple sclerosis and Type I diabetes are all caused by an immune system run amok. No one knows what initiates any of these chronic diseases or how they might be cured, but researchers have nonetheless made significant headway in developing new drugs to treat them-drugs that represent the first substantial advancement in the field in 50 years...
Most of these new drugs are genetically engineered biological molecules, and the majority are designed to treat rheumatoid arthritis and its close clinical relative, lupus. Like all autoimmune diseases, both disorders strike women disproportionately. In RA, the immune system attacks the joints and eventually weakens the bones, causing excruciating pain, fatigue and daily bouts of fever. With lupus, the attack is far more generalized, affecting blood vessels, joints, skin and several internal organs. In severe cases, it can be lethal...
...clearly too soon to declare victory in the war on cancer, since nine out of ten new treatments will fail clinical trials. But doctors who treat the disease are experiencing a surge of optimism the likes of which they have never seen. "It’s no longer spin the wheel, let’s try this drug, maybe it will work," says Henry Friedman, a neuro-oncologist at Duke University Medical Center. "We’re going to know why a drug is or isn’t working." And given the nature of cancer and the scientists who study...
...secrets of Parkinson’s-and the more they’re growing convinced that next-generation drugs may be at last be able to beat back the disease. What’s more, the benefits may not be limited to Parkinson’s, but may also be used to treat Huntinton’s, Lou Gehrig’s and even Alzheimer’s disease-all of which have similar neurochemical roots and could respond to similar drugs. Says neurobiologist Michael Zigmond of the University of Pittsburgh: "A breakthrough in any of these diseases could have an impact on the others...