"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Testing West Nile Drug: A physician in New York is running a clinical trial to see if interferon, a drug already used for hepatitis, can combat West Nile virus. He began his study several years ago, but couldn’t get enough patients in his native New York, so he’s been borrowing patients from other places, like Louisiana. The study, by necessity, is a small one, so it's results won't be that reliable. Fortunately, West Nile virus isn't as much of a real threat as it's being made to seem, so there won't be all that many occasions to resort to any therapy. posted by Sydney on
8/22/2002 07:13:00 AM
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