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- <text id=92TT0983>
- <title>
- May 04, 1992: New Drug for AIDS?
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- May 04, 1992 Why Roe v. Wade Is Already Moot
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 24
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- New Drug for AIDS?
- </hdr><body>
- <p>Accelerating the screening process, experts recommend approval
- for DDC
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> If the FDA approves DDC the manufacturer, Hoffmann-La
- Roche, will be required to submit further studies on the drug's
- safety and efficacy.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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