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Biotech / Medical : BICO & VITK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hubert Few who wrote (1890)	7/12/1998 12:30:00 PM
From: David Sirk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2395

<- Previous Next -> Message 10094 of 10127 Reply 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.