The FDA's Oncologic Drug Advisory Committee Decides the Fate of Two Drugs for AIDS-Related Malignancies ‘Nowhere near bowled over’ On June 23rd, the FDA's Oncologic Drug Advisory Committee held a hearing to determine the fate of Bristol Myers-Squibb's supplemental new…
Republicans and Pharmaceutical Industry Target the FDA in a Dangerous Plan to Undermine the FDA ‘Two lone voices’ Gregg Gonsalves, TAG's Policy Director and Washington watchdog, has just returned from a week in our nation's capitol, on the heels of…
Data from the 23rd ACTG Meeting Document Reduction in Number of Opportunistic Infections in the Era of HAART ‘It’s a good thing’ Since the approval and wide-spread use of protease inhibitors in mid-1996, AIDS clinicians and primary care physicians across…
Having Temporarily Suspended Disbelief, Would-Be Eradicatee Looks Forward to Still Uncertain Future ‘A perilous seduction’ Irrational exuberance might not be the sole domain of streets Broad and Wall. Speculation in AIDS futures has also seen quite a run over the…
Metabolic Disturbances in HIV Infection Find Friend Not Foe in Protease Inhibitor Regimens Refeeding paradox On May 20-21 the Office of AIDS Research (OAR) sponsored a conference, the first of its kind on AIDS wasting syndrome. Alongside Michael Marco and…
Roche Racks Up Millions In Early Saquinavir Sales While Unwitting Patients Prime Themselves for Protease X-Resistance Community cries for compensation Cynical, greedy, manipulative, opportunistic, penny-pinching, short-sighted, slipshod. Do these words come to mind when you think of Hoffmann-La Roche’s AIDS…
Panel Embraces Maximum Viral Suppression as Goal of Therapy; Drug Company Bonanza Creates Headaches for Third-Party Payers and AIDS Treatment Educators Eleventh hour backstage skullduggery stymied by unified community "And What Rough Beast, Its Hour Come Round at Last, Slouches…
Opportunistic Infections in the Era of HAART - A Report from the 4th Conference on Retroviruses HIV RNA as guide to risk Protease inhibitors (ritonavir, indinavir and nelfinavir) in combination with reverse transcriptase inhibitors (commonly referred to as "HAART," for…
HIV-Infected Kids Choke in the Dust of Adult Advances While Their Advocates Struggle to Maintain Funding Two to three year lag As the AIDS epidemic nears the end of its second decade, pediatric AIDS research has become a flash-point for…
When it comes to corporate positioning for protease inhibitor market share, every company has a yarn to spin. Merck loyalists insist that theirs be used first-line because it's so powerful and, "after all, really requires multiple mutations in order to…