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A drug discovered more than 100 years ago may hold the key to combating autism symptoms, according to a study.
Researcher Dr Robert Naviaux of the San Diego School of Medicine gave suramin, a drug first developed in 1916, to 10 autistic boys between the ages of five and 14, and noted transformative results.
"After the single dose, it was almost like a roadblock had been released," he said. "If the future studies show that there's continued health benefits, this could be a game-changer for families with autism."
The study, which has been published in the Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, saw five of the participants receive suramin, while the remainder were given placebos. Included in the group were four non-verbal children – two six year olds and two 14 year olds.
"The six year old and the 14 year old who received suramin said the first sentences of their lives about one week after the single suramin infusion," Naviaux told the UC San Diego Health website. "This did not happen in any of the children given the placebo."
Source: https://www.rt.com/usa/390222-autism-research-suramin-symptoms/
(Score: 2) by Bobs on Wednesday May 31 2017, @05:56PM (9 children)
Exciting - looking forward to seeing results replicated with a much larger group of people.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DannyB on Wednesday May 31 2017, @06:00PM (7 children)
More exciting -- looking forward to this hundred year old drug costing $100,000 per dose.
One man's replicated results with a larger group of people is another man's 'job killing burdensome regulations'.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday May 31 2017, @06:05PM (3 children)
"Upon further review by our company's scientists, the drug has significant side-effects and is too dangerous to use. However, the new patented strawberry-flavored version has passed all our tests with flying colors, despite all the sacrifices we had to make in order to reduce our manufacturing costs to only $17899 per ml."
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday May 31 2017, @06:38PM (1 child)
. . . furthermore, our new drug must be taken weekly for life.
We don't need no steenkin' single-dose cures. What we need is an ongoing treatment. And just for spite we're going to make it an injection children take rather than an orally taken medication. Think of the children.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @07:50PM
A great many people are perfectly happy to consume daily doses of caffeine to function in the waking world.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @07:49PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suramin#Adverse_reactions [wikipedia.org]
Thankfully, the way this works is to reset stuck cells so it works once and you're done.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday May 31 2017, @07:19PM (1 child)
Never been a better time to be autistic in Africa - just become ill with African sleeping sickness or river blindness and the cost of the whole treatment is free if you live countries where the diseases are common.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Wednesday May 31 2017, @07:22PM
Doh, the lost link [wikipedia.org]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Thursday June 01 2017, @06:56AM
Oh, they want to inject it into a larger group of people...specifically, everybody, and for only a modest 5 figure fee per dose.
they only object to giving it to anyone else for free. because that would literally kill their shareholders and ceo.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Thursday June 01 2017, @12:21PM
This crap has been circulating for 15+ years. Metabolic pathway charts on physicians' walls, theories about blocked pathways and all we have to do is repair them. Here's an anecdotal case about Urocholine infusion restoring speech in an autistic child from years ago:
http://www.whale.to/vaccines/megson.html [whale.to]
The doc that promoted that would like you to buy some pure arctic cod liver oil from her to potentially help your autistic child speak again.
This time we have two responders from a group of four non-verbals, and as a bonus there's an age spread from 6 to 14 - more hope.
Please, please, please filter this crap until you have more positive results than can be counted on fingers and toes. ~60,000 births per day in the developed world where the diagnosed autism rate is ~1:68. So, 1000 new autism diagnoses PER DAY, and we're publishing results about a study of 10 with "2 dramatic positive responders within a week."
Give this guy funding for a bigger study, not publicity.
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