2009职称英语考前每日一练(卫生类第35期-A级)职称英语考试
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Once—daily pill could simplify HIV treatment
Myers Squibb and Gilead Sciences have combined many H.I.V.drugs into a single pill Sometimes the best medicine is more than one kind of medicine.Malaria,tuberculosis and H.I.V./AIDS,2 for example,are all treated with (1)of drugs.But that can mean a lot of pills to take.It would be____(2)if drug companies combined all the medicines into a single pill,taken just once a day.
Now,two companies say they have done that for people just____(3)treatment for H.I.V.,the virus that canses AIDS.The companies are Bristol-Myers Squibb and Gilead Sciences.They haye____(4)a single pill that combines three drugs currently 0/1the market.3 Bristol—Myers Squibb sells one of them____(5)the name of Sustiva.4 Gilead combined the____(6),Emtfiva and Viread,into a single.pill in two thousand four.
Combining drugs involves more than____(7)issues.It also involves issues of competition____(8)the drugs are made by different companies.The new once—daily pill is the result of____(9)is escribed as the first joint venture agreement of its kind in the treatment of H.I.V.
In January the New England Journal of Medicine5 published a study of the new pill.Researchers compared its____(10)to6 that of the widely use(combination of Sustiva and ombivir.Combivir____(11)two drugs,AZT7 and 3TC.8 The researchers say that after one year of treatment,the new pill suppressed H.I.V.1evels in more patients and with____(12)side effects.9 Gilead paid for the study.Professor Joel Gallant at the Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine in Baltimore,Maryland,led the research.He is a paid adviser to Gilead and Bristol—Meyers Squibb as well as the maker of Combivir,GlaxoSmithKline.