Researchers debate timing of AZT treatment
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New research shows that using AZT, an antiviral drug, soon after infection may have no benefit over using it later in the progress of the disease. However, physician Robert Walker, of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that he personally feels that patients should take the drug as soon as they are diagnosed with HIV. The Concorde study, a study of 1,700 infected people over three years, found that early treatment with AZT was no more effective than later treatment. The National Institutes of Health will hold a Jun 1993 conference on antiviral drugs.
Publication Name: American Medical News
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0001-1843
Year: 1993
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Drug firm to offer free access to AIDS drug
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Two Hoffmann-LaRoche programs will offer free DDC (zalcitabine) to be used in combination with AZT (zidovudine), to some HIV-infected individuals who cannot participate in controlled clinical trials. One program will begin in Mar 92, and will serve symptomatic participants with a CD4 lymphocyte count of 300 or less, or asymptomatic participants with a CD4 count of 200 or less. The other program will begin in the first half of 1992 and will serve healthier HIV-infected individuals.
Publication Name: American Medical News
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0001-1843
Year: 1992
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