首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Once Daily Pill Could Simplify HIV Treatment Bristol-Myers Squibb and Gilead Sciences have combined many HIV drugs into a si
Once Daily Pill Could Simplify HIV Treatment Bristol-Myers Squibb and Gilead Sciences have combined many HIV drugs into a si
admin
2013-11-24
40
问题
Once Daily Pill Could Simplify HIV Treatment
Bristol-Myers Squibb and Gilead Sciences have combined many HIV drugs into a single pill. Sometimes the best medicine is more than one kind of medicine. Malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS,【C1】______, are all treated with combinations of drugs. But that can mean a lot of pill to take. It would be【C2】______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【C3】______treatment for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The companies are Bristol-Myers Squibb and Gilead Science. They have 【C4】______single pill that combines three drugs currently on the market. Bristol-Myers Squibb sells one of them【C5】______the name of Sustiva. Gilead combined the【C6】______, Emtriva and Viread, into a single pill in two thousand four.
Combining drugs involves more than【C7】______issues. It also involves issues of competition 【C8】______he drugs are made by different companies. The new once-daily pill is the result of 【C9】______is described as the first joint venture agreement of its kind in the treatment of HIV. In January the New England Journal of Medicine published a study of the new pill. Researcher compared its【C10】______o that of the widely used combination of Sustiva and Combivir. Combivir【C11】______two drugs, AZT and 3TC. The researchers say that after one year of treatment, the new pill suppressed HIV levels in more patients and with fewer【C12】______effects. 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, Glaxo Smith Kline.
Glaxo Smith Kline reacted【C13】______the findings by saying that a single study is of limited value. It says the effectiveness of Combivir has been shown in each of more than fifty studies. The price of the new once-daily pill has not been announced. But Gilead and Bristol-Myers Squibb say they will provide it at reduced cost to developing countries. They plan in the next few months to ask the United States Food and Drug Administration to approve the new pill.
There are limits to who could take it【C14】______the different drugs it contains. For example, 【C15】______omen are told not to take Sustiva because of the risk of birth disorders. Experts say more than forty million people around the world are living with HIV.
【C1】
选项
A、therefore
B、thus
C、for example
D、nevertheless
答案
C
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/OgUd777K
本试题收录于:
职称英语综合类A级题库职称英语分类
0
职称英语综合类A级
职称英语
相关试题推荐
Alongjourneyincoldweatherisdreadfullytiring.
A.thenationalhighwaysystemB.theeastandwestC.thefederalgovernmentD.movementandexcitementE.thenorth
Geothermal(地热)Energy1Sinceheatnaturallymovesfromhotterregionstocoolerones,theheatfromtheearth’scenterflowsou
ATheWideUseofEnglishBHistoricalAccountofEnglishandItsCommunityCTheAdvantagesofLearningaSecondLanguageDThe
DetoxbeginsafterChristmaswhenpeoplethinkthattheyhavebeenovereatingduringtheChristmasseasonandhavetakeninmany
Examinationpapersoftheclassweremarkedwithoutbias.
LifeConnectedwithComputerAftertoolongontheNet,evenaphonecallcanbeashock.Myboyfriend’sLiverpudlianaccent
Hehasn’tthefundstocarryouthisdesign.
Manyresidentsofapartmentcomplexesobjecttonoisyneighbors.
HenryManleywasalreadydeeplyindebt.HenryManley’scompanywasindeeptrouble.
随机试题
胸部、上腹部、背部、臀部拆线应在术后
有关肿瘤免疫的错误描述是
根据土地的“生熟”程度,有把土地粗略地分为生地、毛地、熟地三种,由此又有()。
常见的金融风险类型包括()。
甲公司的分公司在其经营范围内以自己的名义对外签订一份货物买卖合同。根据《公司法》的规定,下列关于该合同的效力及其责任承担的表述中,正确的是()。
心理学家陆钦斯的“量水实验”证明的迁移理论是()。
实事求是是中国共产党人始终坚持的思想路线,是指()。
A和B同时同地出发,当B走到途中凉亭时,A落后B1公里,B说:“前次我和C一起走,当C走到此凉亭时,我已经超过凉亭1公里了”,如果A和C一起走,则()。
以下叙述错误的是()。
A、Thedoctor’sofficewillbeclosedtomorrow.B、Thedoctor’sscheduleisfilledtomorrow.C、Thedoctorhasstoppedseeingnewp
最新回复
(
0
)