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The Associated Press On
IDT, (BICO's Subsidiary) &
AIDS!
sportakus
Jul 12 1998
4:09AM EDT
By Associated Press!
<<60 patients to be added to trial
WASHINGTON - AIDS researchers have received government
permission to expand an unorthodox experiment: scalding patients'
blood in an attempt to fight the deadly virus.
The Food and Drug Administration will let IDT Inc. add 60 AIDS
patients to its trial, where patient's blood is drained, heated to 114
degrees and steamed back in. Blood continues to circulate during the
process.
IDT, which announced the expansion Thursday, said the new studies
should give the company enough data on the therapy to ask the FDA to
allow sales of the treatment.
But the FDA cautioned that nobody has proved this treatment helps
AIDS patients. The early trials merely showed that IDT could heat
patients' blood, bringing their overall body temperature to almost 108
degrees, without causing brain damage or other harm, said FDA's Dr.
Susan Alpert.
Now the FDA will carefully check the 60 new patients for signs that the
heat fought HIV, the AIDS virus.
The theory is that heat will kill some of the HIV roaming through
patients' blood, temporarily clearing enough of the virus that patients'
exhausted immune systems have a chance to fight back.
But many scientists doubt it. The first U.S. hyperthermia attempt caused
a scandal in 1990 when the government said the patient declared cured
in fact never even had AIDS. Some U.S. AIDS patients who then
turned to attempts in other countries died.
Still, IDT in 1994 convinced the FDA that it had come up with a safer
way to heat patients' blood - and to reliably measure the results - and
won permission to test six very ill patients.
When all survived, the FDA last winter let IDT heat 20 people at a
hospital in Lafayette, Ind., and compare them with 10 others treated
conventionally.
None of the patients whose temperatures reached 108
degrees has suffered any AIDS-related infections since, while two of
the control group sickened, as did two whose temperatures didn't rise
above 104 degrees.
By The Associated Press>>
If BICO only had one product I would agree with you. Your missing the whole picture. Nasa has also hooked up with Bico on a Zebra Mussel remover, THIS COULD BE HUGE!... We could just be seeing the tip of the iceberg here. To be fair you should mention these other products but you act like Bico lives or dies by the Glucose tester. |
