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Clinical Trials
GenoMed to offer free clinical trial for mumps
May 18th, 2006
GenoMed, Inc. (GMED) announced that it is offering a free clinical trial for mumps, using already existing medications. (The cost of the drugs, about $1 a day, is extra.) GenoMed believes a class of safe, already existing blood pressure pills may be a near-universal viral antidote, making vaccines and antiviral drugs unnecessary for most viruses except for the tiny fraction of the population which is immunosuppressed. GenoMed's approach has been successful for treating West Nile virus encephalitis in humans for the past 3 summers, and in birds for the past 2 summers. The first 8 patients were published in a peer-reviewed medical journal in 2004. Said...
Source: Biotech Business Week (2006-05-18)
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