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Company updates positive clinical data on multiple antisense drugs.

Women's Health Weekly

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2003 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (ISIS) announced positive data from clinical trials of four antisense drugs for the treatment of four diseases.

Final results from phase II studies of ISIS 104838 in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and ISIS 14803 for the treatment of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) were presented at the 67th annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology and the 54th annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, respectively.

Updated results of a phase II study of alicaforsen (ISIS 2302) in patients with pouchitis were presented at the 67th annual scientific meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology, and results from a phase I study involving ISIS 113715 for type 2 diabetes were reported at the Nucleic Acid World Summit in September.

"The recent positive results from multiple drugs in a variety of diseases demonstrate antisense technology's broad applicability, and add to the growing body of evidence that antisense drugs are active in man," said Jon T. Holmlund, MD, Isis' vice ...

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