HEALTH

Anatomy of a Failure

New details reveal just how big a disaster Merck's AIDS vaccine turned out to be.

By Mary Carmichael | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Nov 7, 2007 | Updated: 2:01  p.m. ET Nov 7, 2007

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  • Posted By: nawawimohamad @ 11/19/2007 4:53:26 AM

    Merck, keep on trying . Do not be disappointed. Continue with the research. This will give hope to everybody. One day in the near future I hope the cure will be found.

  • Posted By: mynameisteo @ 11/14/2007 11:35:47 PM

    in this article, I see that HIv disease is blowing out , and either the hiv patients and not hiv patients need vaccine medicine. According to the doctors said that seem to be they do not even find out how to stop this disease and vaccine only temporarily prevent it, and this disease is the same as cancer. It means that there is no way to recover for hiv disease even though there were some people volunteer to become the patients to help the doctors find out which way to prevent hiv disease. this is a serious disease for everybody , and I hope that some days they will find out the way to stop hiv disease.

  • Posted By: filet222 @ 11/13/2007 8:17:17 PM

    Well,now it has been revealed to all where the most evil people in the world work....at drug companies and hospitals! They labor day and night in order to kill and injure their patients in order to charge them high prices and thus profit. Sort of like a worldwide Auchewitz in every town and city.Who knew? We are all doomed! Or perhaps not.Maybe curing cancer and AIDS is very difficult.

  • Posted By: HydroMike@insightbb.com @ 11/09/2007 6:16:32 AM

    I fully agree with the comment made by MitchM the profit is in the treatment not the cure if they could cure cancer and aids today the effects would amount to the drug companies loosing billions of dollars. This is why drug companies have so many representatives lobbying Washington and making contributions on a regular basis

  • Posted By: MitchM @ 11/08/2007 4:37:46 PM

    I dont think there will ever be a cure or vacine for aids. Not because its not possible but because the big companies in charge of the research knows that if nobody had aids or cancer they wouldnt be spending billions of dollars a year for treating the symptoms. Its simple. Greed rules the world and they know they are wrong. But the're rich and nobody can do anything about it.

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