Showing posts with label AIDS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AIDS. Show all posts
Monday, July 06, 2009

Canadian-made HIV vaccine close to human trial

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From the National Post: It has been 20 years in the making but researchers at the University of Western Ontario say they're confident th...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Taming a deadly disease

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From the Globe and Mail: Twenty-five years after the discovery of the AIDS virus, the deadly disease has been halted in its tracks – so much...
Saturday, April 18, 2009

HIV deal shows need for new pharmaceutical models

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From Reuters: The pharmaceutical industry is going back to the lab for its business models as it faces historic challenges. Large drugmakers...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

Better drugs encouraging AIDS complacency: Nobel doctor

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From AFP: People are forgetting to practise safe sex because they no longer fear dying from HIV/AIDS, says the doctor who won the Nobel priz...
Monday, March 09, 2009

HIV rates 'surprisingly high' in those over 50

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From CTV News: Rates of HIV infection among people over 50 appear to be on the rise - perhaps in part to the increased use of erectile-dysfu...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

HIV drug could raise heart attack risk

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From the Irish Times: A widely used anti-HIV drug could raise heart attack risk by encouraging blood clots to form, according to a new study...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Indonesia scraps plans to tag HIV patients

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From the International Herald Tribune: An Indonesian province beleaguered by a spiraling HIV infection rate scrapped plans to implant microc...
Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Expect vaccine to inhibit HIV within 5 years: Nobel winner

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From CBC News: A therapeutic vaccine to inhibit the spread of HIV will be available within five years, according to a Nobel Prize-winning sc...
Monday, November 24, 2008

Indonesian AIDS patients face microchip monitoring

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I realize this isn't really a pharmacy story, but it it heath/medical related and extremely troublesome so I thought I'd include it ...
Saturday, November 15, 2008

Rare Treatment Is Reported to Cure AIDS Patient

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From the New York Times: Doctors in Berlin are reporting that they cured a man of AIDS by giving him transplanted blood stem cells from a pe...
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Thursday, November 13, 2008

AIDS vaccine developed in Ont. nears human trials

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From Canada.com: An experimental vaccine aimed at combating the HIV/AIDS virus has been developed by a researcher at the University of Weste...
Sunday, November 09, 2008

Downtown Walgreens to focus on HIV/AIDS

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I think it's pretty interesting that some of the bigger pharmacy chains are starting to develop niche markets. Typically this has been ...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Canadian to ship AIDS drugs to Rwanda for first, perhaps last time

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From the Vancouver Sun: Seven million pills will leave Toronto Wednesday bound for Rwanda, the first and perhaps the last shipment of generi...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

First batch of AIDS meds leaves for Africa

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From the Winnipeg Sun: The first batch of Canadian-made AIDS drugs will leave for Africa this week, four years after the federal government ...
Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Drugs increase life expectancy of HIV patients by 13 years: study

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From CBC News: B.C. researcher Robert Hogg knew that a frequently used cocktail of drugs was helping people with HIV live longer than expect...
Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Coverage could soar under new guidelines

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From the Globe and Mail: The number of people with HIV-AIDS eligible for treatment with powerful drug cocktails could more than double under...
Sunday, July 20, 2008

Roche to suspend HIV research, seeing no advances

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From the National Post: Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche Holding AG will suspend its HIV research because none of its pending medicines re...
Monday, June 23, 2008

Drug for treating HIV may raise heart attack risk, manufacturer warns

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From the Canadian Press: A drug used in combination with other antiretrovirals to treat HIV infection has been linked with an increased risk...
Sunday, May 18, 2008

HIV drug linked to serious liver side-effects, Health Canada warns

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From the Canadian Press: Health Canada and pharmaceutical company Janssen-Ortho are warning people taking the HIV drug Prezista that the dru...
Friday, May 16, 2008

Association of Prezista (darunavir) with hepatotoxicity

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From Health Canada: Tibotec, a division of Janssen-Ortho Inc. ("Tibotec"), in cooperation with Health Canada, would like to inform...