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New method to overcome multiple drug resistant diseases developed by Stanford researchers

Many drugs once considered Charles Atlases of the pharmaceutical realm have been reduced to the therapeutic equivalent of 97-pound weaklings as the diseases they once dispatched with ease have developed resistance to them. (2008-08-19)

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