For eight years Isis survived without a substantial product, and in 1998 it won federal approval of Vitravene, an eye infection drug for AIDS patients.
On the AIDS day issue, did this White House look at any chance, any ways of working with HHS in trying to push more anti-retrovirals out for more AIDS patients and HIV patients?
The best hope for treating more AIDS patients is that drug companies, many of which are already selling their HIV drugs for much lower prices in poor countries, will find ways to make them even cheaper.
The Missionaries of Charity runs hostels for lepers, AIDS patients, the crippled and mentally handicapped, unwed mothers, abandoned children, alcoholics, drug abusers.
He called for greater use of visual aids to help patients remember facts about their condition.
Isentress was approved in 2007 for patients whose viral counts were rising despite AIDS drug therapy.
He predicts the company should benefit as doctors start demanding new gene-based diagnostic tests for their patients, such as new methods for genotyping the AIDS virus.
"Hearing loss is a medical condition, but we don't want people going without help, " says Sreekant Cherukuri, the Chicago otolaryngologist who designed it for patients who couldn't afford high-end hearing aids.
For example, if you're thinking about any kind of chronic illness where you're providing care to patients over long periods of time, say, for diabetes or AIDS, then you have to have a steady supply of medication, certainly, but also laboratory equipment.
In Connecticut, Dr. Gary Blick, a Norwalk physician who specializes in treating patients with HIV and AIDS, said he believes the time is right for state lawmakers to push ahead with this issue.
This stands in contrast to AIDS where patients get cocktails of targeted pills that keep the HIV virus at bay for years.
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Keith Alcorn, of the National Aids Manual, said the findings showed it was important for all newly diagnosed HIV-positive patients to receive a resistance test before starting treatment.
It had high hopes for Vistide, a drug to treat herpes, genital warts and a retina-destroying virus in late-stage AIDS patients.
The scam involves billing the government for the expensive drugs, then administering only saline solution or nothing at all to AIDS and HIV patients.
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