Enfield police raided the home of suspected drug dealer Antonio Spicer, looking for the usual stuff: crack, cocaine and cash. What they found was AZT and Bactrim — drugs used to fight AIDS. The police ...

The dramatic announcement by federal health officials last week that AZT, the only licensed drug to treat AIDS, should be given to people who show the earliest signs of the disease, raises one of the ...

At least 50 Chicago area patients with AIDS and its related complex who are receiving the anti-AIDS drug AZT are being sought to participate in a new treatment that may be effective in combating the ...

WASHINGTON — Setting the stage for possible federal approval of a third antiviral AIDS drug, early findings in an ongoing study have shown that the experimental AIDS drug DDC, used in combination with ...

The Food and Drug Administration Thursday formally approved the anti-viral AIDS drug AZT to treat children, making it the first AIDS drug sanctioned as standard therapy for pediatric use. The drug was ...

Rutgers researchers have discovered how HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS, resists AZT, a drug widely used to treat AIDS. It seems a virus hijacks a common molecule to do the job. The scientists, who ...

Johannesburg — Despite a surge in demand for the anti-AIDS drug AZT, pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is not increasing production - a decision that could have critical repercussions for ...

Jerome Horwitz, a medical researcher at Wayne State University in Detroit, had spent more than a decade developing a drug he hoped would work against cancer. But the compound failed to help the lab ...

WASHINGTON — A federal advisory panel recommended yesterday that the government approve the experimental antiviral AIDS drug DDC, but only to be used in combination with AZT, the most widely dispensed ...

Non-breastfed babies born to HIV-positive mothers who didn't receive antiretroviral therapy during pregnancy are routinely given zidovudine, commonly known as AZT, shortly after birth to prevent ...

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