Soaring Valley Fever Drug Costs Create Crisis in Arizona

Soaring valley fever drug costs create crisis in Arizona
With a drug that eradicates the infection, early treatment could prevent the complications altogether. Currently, nikkomycin development is sponsored by the University of Arizona because no pharmaceutical company has accepted the responsibility. The …
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Miley Cyrus or Synthetic Drugs: Which Is the Greater Threat?
Doctors in Arizona and Illinois have sounded the alarm about emerging use of intravenous desomorphine, known as krokodil because it turns the user's skin green and scaly before the flesh literally rots from the bone. Although these seem to be big city …
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Gene therapy scores big wins against blood cancers
The treatment involves filtering patients' blood to remove millions of white blood cells called T-cells, altering them in the lab to contain a gene that targets cancer, and returning them to the patient in infusions over three days. "What we are giving …
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