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Article: CURE FOR THE COMMON COLD IS JUST OUT OF REACH
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 25, 1999
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1999 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Next time your throat is so raw you can't swallow and your nose is
so stuffed you can't breathe, think on this:
Apparently safe, reasonably effective antiviral drugs for the
common cold have already passed various stages of human testing. But
the manufacturers - two pharmaceutical giants - have decided the
drugs simply aren't profitable enough to bring to market.
Thanks a lot, guys.
You would think that, with 61 million cases of the common cold
annually in this country alone, the sheer enormity of the market
would goad drug makers into an all-out attack on cold viruses. And
some companies, notably ViroPharma and Agouron Pharmaceuticals, are
still hanging in there, pushing to finish studies ...