Tests of Drug to Block H.I.V. Infection Are Halted Over Safety
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Efforts to develop a topical microbicide for use during sex suffered their second failure in a full-scale trial in recent years.
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The US National Institutes of Health halted an Alzheimer&#39;s prevention study of Pfizer Inc.&#39;s Celebrex painkiller and the generic naproxen drug because of a heart risk.
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In a disappointing setback, a promising experimental AIDS vaccine failed to work in a large international test, leading the developer to halt the study. Merck &amp; Co. said Friday that it is ending enrollment and vaccination of volunteers in the study, which was partly funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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Clinical trials of an anti-virus gel supposed to help protect women against AIDS were cancelled after it was found that those on the treatment were more susceptible to HIV infection, a statement from the World Health Organisation said.
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A trial of Bayer AG's  heart surgery drug Trasylol was halted after an increased risk of death from bleeding was linked to the treatment, the company said on Thursday.
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An experimental gel designed to prevent  men and women from being infected with the virus that causes  AIDS has been dropped by the British biotechnology firm  developing it.
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The drug giant Merck suspends trials on an HIV vaccine that was regarded as one of the most promising.
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The campaign to get cheap Aids drugs to millions of Africans was dealt a blow yesterday when a manufacturer in India admitted it could not prove the quality of its medicines and withdrew them from the list approved by the World Health Organisation.
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U.S. regulators on Tuesday ordered companies to stop selling unapproved drugs containing quinine, which is approved only in one anti-malaria drug and can have serious side-effects.
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India-based Hetero Drugs has withdrawn all six of its antiretroviral drugs from the WHO&#39;s list of approved drugs following concerns about their laboratory tests, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.
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Baxter International has pulled its flu vaccine from a clinical trial in Britain because of side effects. Baxter, of Deerfield, Ill.
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Manufacturers of unapproved extended-release cough and cold drugs that contain an expectorant called guaifenesin have until Nov. 25 to stop shipping the medications, health officials said yesterday.
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FOLLOWING Ranbaxy Laboratories&#39; decision to withdraw all its anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs from the World Health Organisation (WHO) list, the Health Ministry is concerned about this development and is likely to ask the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI
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Doctors and AIDS activists in Africa are worried governments may halt use of an AIDS drug that has protected thousands of babies from HIV infection in reaction to new concerns about the drug's testing and effect on pregnant women.
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U.S. health officials said on   Tuesday they were re-evaluating rules that allow the testing of   unapproved emergency treatments without patient consent, a   practice that came under fire in recent studies of potential   blood substitutes.
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BEIJING -- China's drug watchdog announced Saturday it has suspended the sale of a drug used to treat acute leukemia and rheumatoid arthritis in the latest move to hit the country's scandal-ridden drug industry.
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A planned government study into how children's bodies absorb pesticides and other chemicals has been temporarily suspended due to ethical concerns.