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• The purification of human alpha interferon was not reported until 1978.
• These advances led to the first recombinant biotherapeutic, alpha interferon.
• Medical experts now are debating the benefits of adding lamivudine therapy to treatment with alpha interferon.
• The standard treatment for active hepatitis C is an antiviral-drug combination of alpha interferon and ribavirin.
• In May, the company reported that its drug, Zadaxin, showed favorable results when administered with alpha interferon.
• The drug, alpha interferon, is already approved for use against hepatitis C and a few other conditions.
• For instance, Genentech licensed the patents to Schering-Plough for alpha interferon, a drug for hepatitis and cancer.
• They include insulin for diabetes, beta interferon for multiple sclerosis and alpha interferon for hepatitis and cancer.
• Starting in 1992, the treatment of choice was alpha interferon, injected three times a week for a year.
• The only approved treatment in the United States is alpha interferon, an expensive drug with dangerous side effects.
• In 1991, Hirsch decided to try a course of treatment with alpha interferon, a protein that inhibits virus replication.
• Both Roche and Schering-Plough, for instance, have developed more effective forms of alpha interferon, which is off patent, that need fewer injections.
• Both Roche and Schering-Plough have developed longer-lasting versions of alpha interferon that would require fewer injections, and Amgen has developed a longer-lasting EPO.
• Most notable has been its genetically engineered alpha interferon product, which Schering-Plough sells under the name Intron A as a treatment for hepatitis.
• There are now two drugs approved for hepatitis B, alpha interferon and lamivudine, also called 3TC, which is sold as the AIDS drug epivir.
• Five years ago Bromley began treatment with alpha interferon, and within two and a half months he was down to a level of zero virus.
• The treatment consists of two drugs _ the anti-viral ribavirin and Schering's Intron A, the company's proprietary brand of alpha interferon _ taken in combination.
• Early biotechnology drugs like alpha interferon and interleukin-2 are effective against some cancers, but only in doses as toxic as the most potent chemotherapy drugs.
• He succeeded Walter Gilbert, a Harvard professor and Biogen founder who received a Nobel prize in chemistry in 1980 for his work on alpha interferon.
• The main treatment now is the combination of alpha interferon and ribavirin, which some scientists think works by stimulating the immune system to attack the virus.