Protease Inhibitors
A protease inhibitor is a type of drug that cripples the enzyme protease. An enzyme is a substance that triggers chemical reactions in the body. The human immunodeficiency virus (H...
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A new drug to treat HIV won federal approval Friday. The Food and Drug Administration said it approved Prezista for the treatment of the human immunodeficiency virus. The drug is the first app...
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Four former executives at drug company Serono Laboratories were acquitted Thursday of paying and offering to pay kickbacks to doctors in exchange for writing prescriptions for an AIDS drug with dec...
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The Brazilian government and Abbott Laboratories have agreed to reduce the price of an anti-AIDS drug by nearly 30 percent this year, the Health Ministry and the company said.A further reduction is...
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(Adds background, details of second trial, Vertex sell-off,
byline) By Ransdell Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) - Schering-Plough Corp
Thursday reported promising results from a mid-stage study
of its ...
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In those days, a diagnosis was a death sentence. No one knew how you got it, this mysterious ailment that savaged the human body with almost medieval cruelty.
Baffled doctors threw everyth...
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Antimicrobials have transformed our ability to treat many infectious diseases that were fatal only a few decades ago. The increasing use of antibiotics in humans, animals, and agricult...
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Speaking ill of Rent has always been comparable to tearing up a red AIDS ribbon on Eighth Avenue, or kicking one of those little AIDS babies you used to hear so much about but totally don’t a...
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