10 Promising Treatments for World's Biggest Health Threats

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10 Promising Treatments for World’s Biggest Health Threats

Posted by Sher Babbar on December 12th, 2006

Alzheimer’s Disease–AlzhemedA new drug targeting the root of this debilitating degenerative disease could be the vanguard of a novel class of treatments

Dengue–Live attenuated 17D yellow fever and dengue chimeraA disease afflicting half a million people annually requires a special kind of vaccine

Diabetes–Technosphere Insulin SystemInhalable insulin could help diabetics regulate blood sugar to an unprecedented degree

Hepatitis C–E1E2/MF59The world’s first preventative vaccine against Hepatitis C could curb the spread of the disease that killed Ginsberg and thousands of others

Arthritis–NaproxcinodPotential replacement for Vioxx combines the powers of nitroglycerin with those of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs

Lung Cancer–StimuvaxNew vaccine against the deadliest of all cancers teaches the body to defend itself while avoiding the side effects of more traditional therapies

Malaria–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 it

Smoking–NicVAXImmunizing the body against nicotine might be just what smokers need to quit for good

Vision Loss–BevasiranibFirst a Nobel Prize, and now a potentially viable treatment: the world’s first interfering RNA drug could be the first of many

HIV–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 epidemic

Source: Scientific American

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