Interferon - Is drug resistance a good thing?

Is drug resistance a good thing?
Gay.com UK - A US scientist has found that drug-resistant HIV stimulates the immune system less strongly. This is good news, not bad - because the main reason people develop AIDS is because the constant fight against HIV exhausts the immune system. Dr Steven

Enzyme inhibitors block replication of SARS virus
EurekAlert - The study was conducted by researchers from Scripps Research; the Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; and the National Taiwan University. It is being published today in the journal Chemistry and Biology (Vol. 13, No. 3). Chi-Huey Wong

AIDS: viral fitness explains different resistance patterns to drugs
Xagena Medical News - Some HIV medications lead to the development of drug-resistant HIV when patients take as few as two percent of their medications. For other medications, resistance occurs only when patients take most of their pills. These differences appear to be

Hepatitis C Market: Plenty Of Potential, But Little Progress
Investors Business Daily - The month of March was not kind to a pair of companies racing to find a cure or vaccine for hepatitis C, the often fatal liver disease that's been called a global epidemic by the World Health Organization. On March 21, Valeant Pharmaceuticals ( VRX

Activists: Hepatitis C clinical trial unfairly excludes blacks
Advocate - Two advocacy groups are blasting the decision by pharmaceutical company Schering-Plough to exclude African-Americans from a clinical trial of its experimental hepatitis C treatment, a decision the company says was needed to better gauge the efficacy

Procyon Announces the Completion of the Acquisition of Cellpep S.A.
Money Plans - Procyon Biopharma Inc. is pleased to announce that it has completed today the closing of the acquisition of Cellpep S.A. and the concurrent private placement of $18.1 million under the terms previously announced on January 19, 2006. Concurrently