She started the infant on a three-drug cocktail of antiretroviral medications for HIV treatment, as opposed to the standard two-drug regimen for prophylaxis (prevention) of infection.
Scientists predict this will eventually lead to an age of personalized medicine, in which a person's DNA is analyzed before treatment and he is given a cocktail of drug treatments customized for his genetic profile.
In recent years, its fastest-growing product has been a once-a-day HIV drug that combines a Gilead-produced medicine with one made by Bristol-Myers Squibb ( BMY), in an all-in-one treatment that represents a big advantage over the cocktail of individual drugs AIDS patients once were obliged to swallow.