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10 Promising Treatments for World's Biggest Health Threats

10 Promising Treatments for World's Biggest Health ThreatsPosted by Sher Babbar on December 12th, 2006Alzheimer's Disease-AlzhemedA new drug targeting the root of this debilitating degenerative disease could be the vanguard of a novel class of treatmentsDengue-Live attenuated 17D yellow fever and dengue chimeraA disease afflicting half a million people annually requires a special kind of vaccineDiabetes-Technosphere Insulin SystemInhalable insulin could help diabetics regulate blood sugar to an unprecedented degreeHepatitis C-E1E2/MF59The world's first preventative vaccine against Hepatitis C could curb the spread of the disease that killed Ginsberg and thousands of othersArthritis-NaproxcinodPotential replacement for Vioxx combines the powers of nitroglycerin with those of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugsLung Cancer-StimuvaxNew vaccine against the deadliest of all cancers teaches the body to defend itself while avoiding the side effects of more traditional therapiesMalaria-RTS,S/AS02AKilling more than two million people, mostly children, every year, this disease will finally face the first ever commercially available vaccine designed to fight itSmoking-NicVAXImmunizing the body against nicotine might be just what smokers need to quit for goodVision Loss-BevasiranibFirst a Nobel Prize, and now a potentially viable treatment: the world's first interfering RNA drug could be the first of manyHIV-HPTN 046 and NevirapinePreventing the half-million cases of mother to child transmission of HIV every year would go a long way to turning the tide of an epidemicSource: Scientific Americanhttp://loveindelhi.wordpress.com/2006/12/12/10-promising-treatments-for-worlds-biggest-health-threats/