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...friend of mine wrote me a congratulations note, and I didn’t know what she was talking about,” said Julie D. Rosenberg ’03, who won for her social anthropology thesis on stigmatization in the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Lima, Peru. “So I went online...and there...
Ongoing studies described at a recent cancer conference indicate that Erbitux makes chemotherapy more effective. Patients who had not previously responded to chemotherapy benefited when the same chemotherapy drugs were taken with Erbitux. If these results hold up, Erbitux could become a vital part of a multidrug assault on cancer--regardless of ImClone's fate. And Mendelsohn may finally see his vision become a reality. --By Alice Park
Life-extending drugs are out there. Wealthy countries use multidrug-cocktail therapies that transform AIDS from certain killer to chronic illness and reduce its spread by making the infected less contagious. The people you just read about could stop dying if they too had access to the drugs...
...dangerous. Its name is Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and it sallies forth on spumes of sputum each time an infected inmate coughs or sneezes. As many as 10% of Russia's million prisoners suffer active TB; in at least 1 case out of 5, the bacillus is a multidrug-resistant strain. Now M. tuberculosis in virulent forms is stalking ordinary citizens in Russian cities and towns, and soon, if it hasn't done so already, it will hitch a ride on an airplane, a bus, a train and escape into the rest of the world...
Then what happens? Cutting off treatment for patients taking the multidrug regimes would be a tragedy, and not just for the individual patients. Suddenly freed from that chemical barrage, the HIV in their bodies could easily become resistant to one or more drugs. If these patients infect anyone else before they die, an entirely new superstrain of HIV could be unleashed on the world--precipitating another and even more frightening public health crisis...