September 8, 2003
From the desk of Jane Galt:Wow
As the proud possessor of a relatively mild autoimmune disease, I sure hope this works.
Posted by Jane Galt at September 8, 2003 11:57 AM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound linksAs the daughter of someone with a fairly severe autoimmune disease (and therefore a genetic carrier), so do I.
I had no idea that diabetes and arthritis are considered auto-immune diseases. I hope the tests are wildly succssful.
From the end of the article: Dr Campbell Bunce, of the British biotech firm Xenova Group Plc, also told the meeting about its vaccines which are designed to reduce addiction to nicotine and cocaine by producing antibodies that prevent the compounds from getting into the brain, which is the key to addiction.
This sounds less useful. Reminds me of Antabuse (if I'm remembering the name correctly), which made you sick if you drank any alcohol. But the cravings were still there, and if you didn't take the Antabuse, you could still drink. I guess with a vaccine you'd only have to talk yourself into getting the shot(s), and from then on cigarettes would be less attractive... until the vaccine wore off.
Type 1 Diabetes (i.e. juvenile-onset) and Rheumatoid Arthritis are autoimmune. Not the vastly more common type 2 diabetes (aka adult-onset) or the garden-variety osteoarthritis which is what most folks who say they have "arthritis" are referring to.
Still, I completely agree in hoping "the tests are wildly succssful".
But I thought Europeans pharmaceutical companies weren't capable of creating useful drugs because their governments have socialized medicine? Whould'a thunk it?
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