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...intravenous-drug user, was 4 when she took her first AIDS drug, and even then the only option she had was AZT. Today doctors know that the best way to fight the virus is to hit it with three drugs at once, one of which is preferably a protease inhibitor. But early patients like Saleem had to learn the hard way. As her virus became resistant to one drug after another, Saleem cycled through a pharmacy of options. As a result, her virus is harder to control, and she finds herself in a hospital at least once a year battling...
...good news: Harvard Medical School researchers have identified an enzyme inhibitor and growth factor that, in combination, appear able to erase some of the damage from heart attacks...
...news: the enzyme inhibitor is a known toxin to humans...
Only those rats receiving both the enzyme inhibitor and FGF1 showed significant improvements in both the proliferation of heart cells and heart function. Though the administration of only the inhibitor did result in the creation of new heart muscle cells, it did not improve cardiac function. The rats that only received the growth factor did not show as much cell proliferation as those receiving the inhibitor...
...there are still some major obstacles in using these drugs on humans to reverse cardiac damage. Since the p38 MAP kinase inhibitor is a known toxin to humans, a different nontoxic small molecule with a similar function must be used...