Friday, July 1, 2011

A New Drug for Rare, Fatal Childhood Disease?

A group of scientists led by NIH director Francis S. Collins are reporting that the drug everolimus clears out a protein called progerin from cells of children with progeria. This protein builds up to toxic levels in patients with progeria, a rapid-aging disorder that causes children to die of heart attacks or strokes in their teens.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wsj/health/feed/~3/lFCjZwNJcCQ/

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