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AIDS Activists Issue Grades to Drug Companies
Friday, September 11th, 2009Source: NY Times
Merck won the highest grade and Abbott Laboratories flunked in a report card being issued Thursday by a prominent group of AIDS treatment activists after a yearlong study of the actions of nine major pharmaceutical companies to address the contagion in the United States.
Although advances in drug regimens since the 1990s have added [...]
Two investigational protease inhibitor boosters may be as effective as ritonavir in patients with HIV, research suggests.
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009MedPage Today (2/10, Peterson) reported that data presented at a medical conference in Montreal “on two investigational protease inhibitor boosters have encouraged HIV clinicians who have been relying solely on ritonavir [Norvir].” According to researchers, the new drugs “appear to have some advantages over the older drug, including: fewer elevations of triglycerides or cholesterol than [...]
