Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clearly, gene therapy is not yet a panacea. Anderson concedes that except for reports of individual patients being helped, "there is still no conclusive evidence that a gene-therapy protocol has been successful in the treatment of a human disease...
Wilson expects Phase I trials using AAV to begin later this year, first for the treatment of hemophilia and later for a form of muscular dystrophy, a liver metabolic disease and retinitis pigmentosa, an eye disorder. "It's kind of a new wave," he says...
Floyd Stokes, recovered, vigorous and hard at work on his Texas ranch last week, needs no convincing. "Dr. Isner and these fellows had to do some really far-out thinking to come up with this treatment," he says. "I owe my life to them...
...cloning is much higher than it is through natural reproduction--roughly 10 times as high as normal before birth and three times as high after birth in our studies at Roslin. Distressing enough for those working with animals, these failure rates surely render unthinkable the notion of applying such treatment to humans...
...this was not always the case. A hundred years ago, the production and sale of drugs in the U.S. was unregulated. Unscrupulous companies took the opportunity to include in their products substances, like cocaine, that were likely to make the patients feel better even if they offered no treatment for the original condition. After public protest, championed by publications such as the Ladies' Home Journal, a federal act was passed in 1906. An enforcement agency, known now as the FDA, was established in 1927. An independent body similar to the FDA is now required to assess all the research...