Saturday, February 10, 2007

Scientific American Special Report: 10 Promising Treatments for World's Biggest Health Threats

Read the full article by Charles Q. Choi on Scientific American online.

Included in the article:
* Dengue--Live attenuated 17D yellow fever and dengue chimera
A disease afflicting half a million people annually requires a special kind of vaccine
* Hepatitis C--E1E2/MF59
The world's first preventative vaccine against Hepatitis C could curb the spread of the disease that killed Allen Ginsberg and thousands of others
* Malaria--RTS,S/AS02A
Killing more than two million people, mostly children, every year, this disease will finally face the first ever commercially available vaccine designed to fight it
* HIV--HPTN 046 and Nevirapine
Preventing the half-million cases of mother to child transmission of HIV every year would go a long way to turning the tide of an epidemic

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