InterMune Lung Drug Is Successful in New Trial

InterMune Lung Drug Is Successful in New Trial
A drug being developed to treat a fatal scarring of the lungs has succeeded in an important clinical trial and could become the first medicine to be approved for that disease, known as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The drug, pirfenidone, slowed the …
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Progress Against Hepatitis C, a Sneaky Virus
The new drugs, sofosbuvir (Sovaldi) and simeprevir (Olysio), are each approved for use with interferon and ribavirin for treatment of genotype 1 infection. Sovaldi already can be used without injected interferon to treat people infected with genotypes …
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New York man arrested amid Philip Seymour Hoffman death probe seeks …
New York state has long had drug-court programs, but a 2009 change in the state's drug laws gave judges more discretion to send nonviolent, addicted offenders to treatment, on the theory that it would work better than prison at stopping them from …
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Drug treatment advocates lobby for additional funding
From 1991 to 2010, the number of people who were consumers of prescription opiates increased by 40 million nationwide, according to the New York Association of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers, and that has led to an increase in prescription …
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