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Sep '04
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Drug Combo Gets FDA Priority
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Gilead Sciences Inc. said the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted priority review of a fixed-dose combination HIV drug containing Emtriva and Viread. |
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Sep '04
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Facial Wasting Treatment Greenlight
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The US Food and Drug Administration last month announced its approval of Sculptra-- the first treatment specifically for the loss of facial fat that can leave HIV patients' faces gaunt and sunken. |
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Sep '04
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A Third of Poz UK Gay Men Ignorant of Their Infection
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A new scientific study suggests that one-third of UK gay males with HIV do not know they
are infected. |
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Sep '04
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Misleading Marketing
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Abbott Laboratories' marketing its AIDS drug Norvir in certain patient information materials as the lowest-cost protease inhibitor is false and misleading, the Food and Drug Administration warned the company last month in a letter. |
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Sep '04
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CMV Predicts Progression to Death
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A new study shows the detection of cytomegalovirus (CMV) in the blood of HIV patients
during follow-up was a better predictor of death than the HIV level itself. |
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Sep '04
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'Serosorting' May Explain Odd HIV Data: STDs Have Risen, but Not New HIV Infections
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Documented increases in STDs among high-risk populations in San Francisco, including men who have sex with men (MSM) who use the Internet to find anonymous sex partners, did not lead to a widely expected synergetic rise in HIV incidence. |
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Sep '04
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New Test Detects HIV Earlier
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A new HIV test combining aspects of traditional antibody testing with polymerase chain
reaction testing, which amplifies small amounts of virus, may allow doctors to monitor
treatment better and screen blood with more speed and sensitivity than current tests. |
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Aug '04
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Gay Gonorrhea Worries CDC
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Increases in fluoroquinolone-resittant gonorrhea among gay and bisexual men have led CDC to change gonorrhea treatment recommendations for some patients, the agency announced last month. |
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Aug '04
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Condom Shop Tests Iran's Limits
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Although Tehran's pharmacies occasionally sell condoms, the Happiness Store is the only shop to specialize in them. |
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Aug '04
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KS Down Sharply
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The number of HIV patients with Kaposi sarcoma (KS) has declined sharply due to the use of antiretroviral drugs, according to a European study released last month. |
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Jul '04
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Colorado's Poor to Die Waiting?
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In Colorado, 280 patients waiting to get into the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) depend on a makeshift system of charity, pharmaceutical company help and clandestine
drug exchanges to get the medicines they need. |
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Jul '04
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Abbott Sued for Price Gouging
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A class-action lawsuit was filed in San Francisco last month against Abbott Laboratories alleging the drug maker is using a monopoly to overcharge thousands of AIDS patients for the
drug Norvir. |
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Jul '04
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Fuzeon in Wide Release
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Hoffman-La Roche Inc. announced plans to make its AIDS drug Fuzeon widely available. The medication will be sold at retail and specialty pharmacies nationwide. |
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Jul '04
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Wisconsin Political Whores Back Moronic Bill
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Under legislation signed by Gov. Jim Doyle, teachers in Wisconsin who have had contact with a student's blood can now force the student to undergo an HIV test. |
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Jul '04
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AIDS Dementia
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In a discovery that may help explain why as many as a quarter of AIDS patients eventually develop dementia, researchers report they have found the mechanism HIV uses to destroy
brain cells. |
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Jul '04
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Researchers to Test AIDS Vaccine on Humans
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Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester are set to begin human testing of an AIDS vaccine that attempts to target five strains of HIV
simultaneously-- an approach that researchers say has worked on animals. |
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Jun '04
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China Tries Republican Approach: Punishment
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Chinese Health Minister and Vice Premier Wu Yi told a conference on HIV/AIDS in Beijing that there must be a nationwide effort to fight the rapid spread of the virus in the country. |
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Jun '04
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More AIDS Patients Get Organ Transplants
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As treatment extends HIV patients' lives, they are increasingly threatened by failing organs-- often from diabetes, hepatitis, and other illnesses-- rather than the infections that proved
so deadly earlier in the epidemic. |
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Jun '04
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Facial Wasting Treatment
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Paris-based Aventis, France's largest drug firm, is one step closer in getting US approval for Sculptura, its injectable wrinkle-filling drug for patients with AIDS-related wasting condition. |
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May '04
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Virginity Pledges Rarely Kept
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The majority of teenagers who pledged not to have sex before
marriage did not keep their vows, and those teens also developed STDs
at about the same rate as young people who had not made such pledges,
according to
a study at the National STD Prevention Conference in Philadelphia. |
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May '04
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Benign Virus May Guard Against HIV Progression
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A common but harmless virus that can persist in the body for years
appears to interfere with HIV, a study in the
New England Journal of Medicine suggests. |
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May '04
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Dementia Found in Treated HIV Patients
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Researchers from the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center
(SFVAMC) used a combination of MRI brain imaging, electrical brain
activity recording and behavioral tests to compare the brains of
HIV-positive people
on antiretroviral (ARV) therapy with the brains of healthy subjects. |
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May '04
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Atlantans Test Pill to Stop HIV
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Approximately 200 gay men in Atlanta will be among the first 3,000
people in the world to test a new HIV/AIDS strategy: a pill to
prevent HIV infection. This spring, three studies-- including one
funded by CDC-- will
examine whether the drug tenofovir (Viread) can stop HIV from causing
infection. Currently used to treat HIV patients, tenofovir works by
blocking reverse transcriptase, an enzyme HIV needs for replication. |
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Apr '04
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Drugs to Treat Both HIV, Hepatitis C
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The Roche corporation said a trial of a two- drug combination for patients infected with HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) showed a marked benefit against viral levels. |
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Apr '04
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Bush Distorting Science
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A group of more than 60 top US scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates and several science advisors to past Republican presidents, accused the Bush administration of manipulating
and censoring science for political purposes. |
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Apr '04
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New HIV Drugs Look Promising
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Twenty medicines are currently available in the United States to treat HIV infection. More are needed, however, because one-third to one-half of infected persons are unable to attain
the goal of stopping viral growth using existing antiretrovirals. |
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Apr '04
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Monkeys' Innate Immunity
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An intracellular protein in Old World primates provides them an innate defense against HIV-1, researchers have recently discovered, a finding possibly opening new avenues to
develop antiviral therapies. |
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Mar '04
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Bush's Medicare Horror
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Some AIDS activists say the new Medicare program, signed into law by President Bush, will put many people with AIDS in jeopardy. The bill provides Medicare recipients with prescription
drug coverage through private insurance policies. |
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Mar '04
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Viagra Effect: A Rise in AIDS for the 50-Plus Set?
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Health Canada statistics show that about 12 percent of people who tested positive for HIV in the first six months of 2003 were 50 or older. |
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Mar '04
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Vatican: "Drug Profiteering 'Genocidal'"
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At a news conference to publicize Pope John Paul II's Lenten message, the Vatican condemned the "genocidal action" of pharmaceutical manufacturers making massive profits
from HIV/AIDS drugs that are not affordable to millions dying from the disease. |
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