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Wonder drug breakthrough in heart attack/cancer fight

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From the Telegraph about the drug canakinumab and how it addresses inflammation, which is "associated with a variety of conditions linked to ageing, including cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis and gout-- all of which reduced among patients put on the treatment":

A new class of drugs which could prevent thousands of heart attacks and deaths from cancer has been hailed as the biggest breakthrough since statins.
Scientists last night said the discovery ushered in “a new era of therapeutics” which work in an entirely different way to conventional treatment.

As well as cutting the risk of a heart attack by one quarter, the drugs halved the chances of dying from cancer and protected against gout and arthritis.

...The four-year study found those given the new treatment saw a 24 per cent reduction in heart attacks and 17 per cent fall in angina, while those on the highest dose saw cancer deaths fall by 51 per cent.

New wonder drug hailed as biggest breakthrough in fight against heart attacks and cancer
 
nota bene said:
From the Telegraph about the drug canakinumab and how it addresses inflammation, which is "associated with a variety of conditions linked to ageing, including cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis and gout-- all of which reduced among patients put on the treatment":

A new class of drugs which could prevent thousands of heart attacks and deaths from cancer has been hailed as the biggest breakthrough since statins.
Scientists last night said the discovery ushered in “a new era of therapeutics” which work in an entirely different way to conventional treatment.

As well as cutting the risk of a heart attack by one quarter, the drugs halved the chances of dying from cancer and protected against gout and arthritis.

...The four-year study found those given the new treatment saw a 24 per cent reduction in heart attacks and 17 per cent fall in angina, while those on the highest dose saw cancer deaths fall by 51 per cent.

New wonder drug hailed as biggest breakthrough in fight against heart attacks and cancer
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I wonder what the side effects are.
 
nota bene said:
From the Telegraph about the drug canakinumab and how it addresses inflammation, which is "associated with a variety of conditions linked to ageing, including cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis and gout-- all of which reduced among patients put on the treatment":

A new class of drugs which could prevent thousands of heart attacks and deaths from cancer has been hailed as the biggest breakthrough since statins.
Scientists last night said the discovery ushered in “a new era of therapeutics” which work in an entirely different way to conventional treatment.

As well as cutting the risk of a heart attack by one quarter, the drugs halved the chances of dying from cancer and protected against gout and arthritis.

...The four-year study found those given the new treatment saw a 24 per cent reduction in heart attacks and 17 per cent fall in angina, while those on the highest dose saw cancer deaths fall by 51 per cent.

New wonder drug hailed as biggest breakthrough in fight against heart attacks and cancer
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Talking about wonderdrugs....
 
As someone who suffers an autoimmune disease and chronic inflammation this is great news, but $50K a year? It doesn't look like it will be helping me anytime soon.
 
nota bene said:
From the Telegraph about the drug canakinumab and how it addresses inflammation, which is "associated with a variety of conditions linked to ageing, including cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis and gout-- all of which reduced among patients put on the treatment":

A new class of drugs which could prevent thousands of heart attacks and deaths from cancer has been hailed as the biggest breakthrough since statins.
Scientists last night said the discovery ushered in “a new era of therapeutics” which work in an entirely different way to conventional treatment.

As well as cutting the risk of a heart attack by one quarter, the drugs halved the chances of dying from cancer and protected against gout and arthritis.

...The four-year study found those given the new treatment saw a 24 per cent reduction in heart attacks and 17 per cent fall in angina, while those on the highest dose saw cancer deaths fall by 51 per cent.

New wonder drug hailed as biggest breakthrough in fight against heart attacks and cancer
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The holy grail in pharma, maintenance, you’ll be on it till ya die, wonder who will all be able to afford it.
 
Baralis said:
As someone who suffers an autoimmune disease and chronic inflammation this is great news, but $50K a year? It doesn't look like it will be helping me anytime soon.
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Not enough room on the planet for all of us anyway, it's pefect.
 
Baralis said:
As someone who suffers an autoimmune disease and chronic inflammation this is great news, but $50K a year? It doesn't look like it will be helping me anytime soon.
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From the article linked in the OP:

The new treatment - which works by blocking part of the immune system called interleukin-1 - currently costs around £40,000 annually to treat a patient with the drug, compared to just £20 for statins.

But experts say the price would come down if widely adopted. And they said the cost would be offset by the millions of pounds saved from not having to perform heart bypasses and other major forms of surgery.
 
Baralis said:
As someone who suffers an autoimmune disease and chronic inflammation this is great news, but $50K a year? It doesn't look like it will be helping me anytime soon.
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The next generation can likely buy it as a generic at $20 for a 90 day supply. ;)
 
Dittohead not! said:
The commercials will list them all, while showing pictures of people having a great time, probably outside and with dogs.
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Those "mouseprint" voiceovers just slay me. All the while you're seeing happy people whose medical problems have been solved by the wonder-drug, you hear that your guts will fall out while your eyeballs explode while you're either killing yourself or somebody else or developing cancer.
 
nota bene said:
Those "mouseprint" voiceovers just slay me. All the while you're seeing happy people whose medical problems have been solved by the wonder-drug, you hear that your guts will fall out while your eyeballs explode while you're either killing yourself or somebody else or developing cancer.
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They're nothing if not entertaining. One side effect they never seem to mention is a lightening - sometimes a severe lightening...


...of the wallet.
 
Dittohead not! said:
They're nothing if not entertaining. One side effect they never seem to mention is a lightening - sometimes a severe lightening...


...of the wallet.
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I take one of the frequently advertised drugs. With insurance it's $35; without, it's $2258. I know this only because there was an insurance glitch, and I was presented with this bill. Why I didn't keel right on over, I don't know.
 
nota bene said:
I take one of the frequently advertised drugs. With insurance it's $35; without, it's $2258. I know this only because there was an insurance glitch, and I was presented with this bill. Why I didn't keel right on over, I don't know.
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I don't think the consumer is supposed to know the actual cost, but someone pays somewhere, usually the insurance ratepayer or the taxpayer.
 
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