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- THE WEEK, Page 24HEALTH & SCIENCENew Drug for AIDS?
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- Accelerating the screening process, experts recommend approval
- for DDC
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- The continuing ravages of AIDS have forced the U.S. Food and
- Drug Administration to further streamline drug-approval
- procedures. Last week a panel of experts recommended that the
- government agency give its conditional blessing to
- dideoxycytidine, or DDC. Although preliminary studies indicate
- that this antiviral medication may not work as well as AZT which
- still ranks as the premier AIDS treatment, the combination of
- drugs seems to rejuvenate some of the immune cells that are
- normally destroyed during the course of the disease.
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- If the FDA approves DDC the manufacturer, Hoffmann-La
- Roche, will be required to submit further studies on the drug's
- safety and efficacy.
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