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...have been in use now for roughly two years. Both Enbrel and Remicade inhibit a key messenger in the inflammatory cascade known as the tumor necrosis factor (TNF). The drugs are both more effective than traditional medications, and more likely to slow down joint degradation. "The idea that biologics could prove effective against autoimmune diseases has been firmly established by the TNF story," says Dr. H. Michael Belmont of the Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York City...
Frank McCormick was flying home from a meeting on cancer genetics when a wild idea popped into his head. What if you could make a virus that would infect-and kill-cancer cells but leave healthy cells intact? The next day, McCormick excitedly explained his notion to colleagues at Onyx Pharmaceuticals, a biotech company he had founded earlier that year. Some of them were as enthusiastic as he was. Others told him he was crazy; such a treatment couldn’t possibly work...
Antibodies are also being drafted to prod the immune system itself into attacking cancer cells. Clinicians have long dreamed of marshalling the body’s own defenses against cancer, if only they could get the immune system to recognize cancer cells as easily as it spots foreign invaders like bacteria and viruses. Researchers at Dendreon Corporation, in Seattle, Wash., have found a way to do just that by enlisting dendritic cells, some of the body’s most potent immune stimulators...
...years ago, Mohammad Omidian, 58, a general contractor from Orinda, Calif., had failed to respond to chemotherapy treatments for multiple myeloma that was eating away at his bones. He had shrunk 3 in. and was so weak, he says, "I could not sneeze without holding on to something." His doctors put him on Dendreon’s experimental treatment Mylovenge, which required extracting dendritic cells from Omidian’s blood, mixing them with molecules from myeloma cells, and then returning them to him so they could deliver a swift kick to his immune system. Within two weeks, Omidian felt strong enough...
...been presumptive since the GOP convention, and Powell has been hovering at Bush's shoulder like a guardian angel for as long as Bush has been able to drop the hint. Powell is a minority Republican who talks like a Democrat, a national amalgam, a military man who could have been a unifying Ike but didn't like politics enough to run. He's a perfect combination of the the elder Bush's Gulf War and the younger's "compassionate conservatism," and he's just prickly enough with his adopted party to be believable...