Gilead says its HIV drug combination beats drug made by ...
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After a preliminary analysis of a late-stage drug trial, Gilead Sciences of Foster City said its two drugs Viread and Emtriva are better able to control levels of HIV than Combivir, a treatment made by competitor GlaxoSmithKline Plc.
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Taking AIDS drugs exactly as prescribed is the best way to prevent the virus from mutating and becoming resistant to those drugs, researchers said on Thursday.
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An experimental Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. pill for the liver disease hepatitis B proved better than a commonly-used anti-viral medicine made by GlaxoSmithKline in late-stage clinical studies, researchers said.
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People infected with the virus that causes AIDS will soon be able to take a once-a-day pill that combines three drugs in a &quot;cocktail&quot; therapy that can be swallowed in a single dose.
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An HIV-positive pregnant woman enrolled in a NIH study examining the ability of the antiretroviral drug nevirapine to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission died of liver failure that likely was caused by the drug.
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Anti-retroviral drugs have been so effective at treating HIV that researchers are now exploring whether they can perform double duty
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A new drug to treat HIV won federal approval Friday. The Food and Drug Administration said it approved Prezista for the treatment of the human immunodeficiency virus. The drug is the first approved HIV medication for its maker, Johnson &amp;amp; Johnson. It&#039;s also the first new HIV drug approved since June 22, 2005.
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NDORI, Kenya -- Giving antiretroviral drugs to pregnant women has long been celebrated as one of the few successful tactics in the war against AIDS in Africa. A single pill for a woman in labor, followed by a sip of syrup for her newborn baby, cuts HIV transmission rates by more than half,...
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A combination of two experimental AIDS drugs can help control the deadly virus in people who are infected with highly resistant forms, an international team of researchers reported on Thursday.
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Sudden jumps of HIV levels in patients  taking drugs for the AIDS-causing infection are harmless blips  and do not mean the treatment against the virus is losing its  punch, a report said on Tuesday.
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Small victories are being won against  the AIDS virus, experts said on Wednesday as a report showed  that 10 times more people in Africa are getting life-saving HIV  drugs than did three years ago, but overall most people who  need treatment are still not getting it.
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A drug widely used to treat H.I.V. infection may also be effective in fighting cancer, a new study suggests, and a human trial of the medicine is already under way.
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Two potentially new classes of anti-HIV drugs have the medical world excited. But progress on a vaccine is still slow  -  and drugs can't do everything
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A drug used to treat people infected with the AIDS virus has shown promise as a possible future weapon against cancer, U.S. researchers said on Friday.
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The World Health Organisation is reinstating two generic AIDS antiretroviral drugs delisted earlier this year after the Indian manufacturer carried out new studies to confirm that they are as effective as their brand-name counterparts.
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Scientists believe they are a step closer to understanding how to block the transmission of HIV. A US and Swiss team used an experimental drug to protect monkeys from their equivalent of the virus.
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Gilead Sciences Inc posted a third-quarter profit that topped Wall Street targets on Thursday, on sales of drugs that fight the virus that causes AIDS, compared with a year-ago net loss due to acquisition- related costs.