Woman Dies Of AIDS During Drug Study; Family Not Told
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The family of an HIV-infected pregnant woman said they were never told Joyce Ann Hafford died from the experimental drug she was taking in an effort to keep her baby from being infected.
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A key anti-HIV/AIDS drug distributed in  Africa causes drug resistance in pregnant women, but only if  they ignore doctors' orders on how to take the pills, medical  officials said on Monday.
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Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son died from a lethal combination of methadone and two antidepressant drugs, a U.S.-based pathologist who conducted a private autopsy said Wednesday.
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A $10 million dollar lawsuit has been filed by the family of Joyce Ann Hafford, a pregnant woman who died while taking experimental AIDS drugs.
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The family of a Japanese boy who died after taking the antiviral drug Tamiflu are to launch an unprecedented lawsuit against a health ministry body after it said the controversial drug was not responsible for his death.
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Trials of a new product designed to help women protect themselves from the AIDS virus were halted on Wednesday after women using it became infected at a higher rate than women not using it, researchers said.
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Mother unlawfully killed when drug was mistakenly fed into her arm via intravenous drip, inquest finds
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LOS ANGELES - A nurse at county-run King-Drew Medical Center turned down a monitor attached to a 28-year-old AIDS patient and failed to notice his heart was barely beating just before he died Thursday, it was reported today.
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An elderly woman in California has died after waiting in a long line for a flu shot. Marie Franklin, 79, was waiting in line with her husband for more than five hours at a Safeway supermarket, when she collapsed and hit her head.
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SEATTLE - A woman being treated for a brain-wasting condition involving misfolded proteins, or prions, has died, and an autopsy may help identify the ailment, authorities said.
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The first anti-AIDS vaginal gel to make it through late-stage testing failed to stop HIV infection in a study of 6,000 South African women
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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, potent...
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Scientists working for the government failed to tell the Bush Administration about problems concerning the use of medication being sent to Africa to treat the HIV virus.
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Dr Edmund Tramont, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Division of AIDS, rewrote a safety report on the use of the antiretroviral drug nevirapine in pregnant women in order to change its conclusions and remove negative
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A virus used in a gene therapy experiment likely didn't cause the death of an Illinois woman suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, although it can't be completely ruled out, government health advisers said Monday.
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WASHINGTON Government scientists found problems with their research on an AIDS drug destined for Africa -- but they never told the White House about them before the drug was distributed.
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Women who take combination AIDS drugs not only have benefits for their own health but also may pass along high levels of the medication through breast-feeding, potentially protecting their infants from HIV infection, suggests research being presented at