US officials &#39;kept quiet&#39; about risks of AIDS drug
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Flaws in a clinical trial of the AIDS drug nevirapine conducted by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) were reportedly kept from the US president before his 2002 announcement of a major aid programme for Africa.
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The government&#39;s chief of AIDS research rewrote a safety report on a US-funded study of the anti-HIV drug nevirapine, sold in the United States as Viramune, to change its conclusions and delete negative information.
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Circumcision, microbicides and microfinance. These are some of the most promising options being examined as potential ways to prevent AIDS. As World AIDS Day is marked Friday, some public health experts are saying the current focus on universal access to lifesaving antiretroviral drugs has had an unintended effect: sidelining prevention. Without a vaccine, preventing HIV infections is key to controlling the pandemic.
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A top Food and Drug Administration official said on Thursday she disagrees with an agency scientist's warning that five drugs on the market have significant safety risks.
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As White House Prepared Launch of Global AIDS Program, NIH Officials Reportedly Kept Flawed Study Data From Administration. On Heels of Recent Scandals Involving the FDA and NIH, US&#39; Largest AIDS Group Says
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WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration silenced one of its drug experts who raised safety concerns weeks before Merck & Co. yanked the blockbuster drug Vioxx due to increased risks for heart attack and strokes, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said Thursday...
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NEW YORK  - The results of large study of  US residents infected with HIV show that the majority of them  refrain from sexual activities likely to spread the virus to  others who are not infected.
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NEW YORK  - It takes more than just passing along good information to stop the spread of HIV, a new US-government-backed study on HIV/AIDS prevention programs has found.
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A top Food and Drug Administration  official said on Thursday she disagrees with an agency  scientist's warning that five drugs on the market have  significant safety risks.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) said  it would continue recommending use of the Viramune drug in AIDS  patients despite a U.S. regulatory warning, as the benefits  were greater than toxicity problems.
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Federal officials involved in a U.S.-funded study in Uganda endangered the lives of hundreds of patients testing an AIDS drug because of careless and negligent research practices, a government whistleblower said Tuesday.
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration denied charges it tried to suppress a safety  official's findings that painkiller Vioxx, which was pulled  from the market last week, raised heart attack risks.
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Weeks before President Bush announced a plan to protect African babies from AIDS, top U.S. health officials were warned that research on the key drug was flawed and may have underreported thousands of severe reactions including deaths, government documents show.
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The US Food and Drug Administration denied charges it tried to suppress a safety official&#39;s findings that painkiller Vioxx, which was pulled from the market last week, raised heart attack risks.
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There was a puzzling line in a report in which the Bush Administration asserted it could not vouch for the safety of foreign, lower-cost prescription drugs.
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Nearly a million Americans now have the AIDS virus and the nation&#39;s ability to keep others from becoming infected still lags despite a government pledge four years ago to &quot;break the back&quot; of the AIDS epidemic by 2005.
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OPPOSITION parties have called for the continued use of nevirapine to help prevent the motherto-child transmission of HIV despite the African National Congress&#39;s (ANC&#39;s) concerns about the safety of the drug.