PHILADELPHIA, March 19, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hemispherx Biopharma, Inc. (NYSE Amex:HEB) (the "Company" or "Hemispherx") announced the publication of a peer-reviewed article providing the results from the AMP-516 Phase III Clinical Trial of Ampligen® [rintatolimod, Poly (I) • (C12,U)], an experimental therapeutic, in the high impact, online journal, PLoS ONE. The report is entitled "A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Randomized, Clinical Trial of the TLR-3 Agonist Rintatolimod in Severe Cases of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome". Recently, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ("CDC") and Harvard School of Public Health published new data showing the profound economic impact of CFS on increasing healthcare costs of $452 million and decreasing CFS patient productivity by $1.2 billion in Georgia, a state with approximately 5.5 million people age 18-59 (Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 9:1, 2011).
