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Anti-Radiation Drug

Posted by michael on from the jump-on-the-homesec-gravy-train dept.

BravoFourEcho writes "The BBC has an article about a U.S. company that is producing a drug to mitigate some of the effects of radiation. Reminds me of Rad-X in the Fallout series of games."

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  1. Neupogen by Bowling+Moses · · Score: 4, Informative

    Other than introducing competition into the marketplace we can't tell how important this is. Cancer patients as a result of their treatment have their white blood cell counts hit the floor and have been taking the drug Neupogen (as the company's website says). Neupogen (in my thankfully very limited second hand experience) works pretty well. A family member of mine taking the drug got a worried phonecall from the lab asking him if he was alright--his white blood cell count was something like 20x higher than a normal, healthy person. But to know how big of a deal HE2100 really is there would need to be a comparison of it to Neupogen, which the article and HollisEden's website don't offer.