Sarepta drug protects lab monkeys from Ebola

By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) – An experimental Ebola drug from Sarepta Therapeutics Inc protected six of eight lab monkeys injected with the virus, scientists from the company and the U.S. Army reported on Tuesday. The drug, called AVI-7537, joins ZMapp from Mapp Biopharmaceutical and a compound from Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp as the agents shown to cure non-human primates given otherwise-lethal injections of Ebola virus. The ZMapp and Tekmira drugs protected 100 percent of lab monkeys in studies, giving them a possible edge.
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U.S. schools turn to new programs to warn teens of drug risks

A school bus used for transporting New York City public school students is seen parked in front of a school in the Queens borough of New York(This version of the story changes name from Christopher to Kris in 17th paragraph) By Laila Kearney DOWNINGTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) – The desperate cry of a mother finding her 17-year-old son dead from a painkiller and another prescription drug instantly silences hundreds of Pennsylvania high school students who listen to her 911 call played at an early morning assembly. "All these kids were around our age, said Michael Senn, an 18-year-old senior at the school Downingtown High School East, after the program. "It felt personal." Senn and his classmates had just sat through a presentation by Narcotics Overdose Prevention and Education, or NOPE, one of a handful of prevention programs cropping up around the United States offering high school and middle school students education about prescription opiate painkillers.

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