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Usually, the added cost of a new drug is justified by an obvious benefit. Second- and third-generation antibiotics, for instance, can work when older, cheaper antibiotics like penicillin fail. In other cases, a costly new drug may break new ground, as AZT did in treating AIDS...
These people, who often suffer severe side effects from taking AZT, do not qualify for the ddI programs because they do not experience a sharp drop in their blood count, he said...
Members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) say the purpose of the demonstration is to bring attention to the urgent need of many AIDS patients for an alternative drug to AZT, currently the most common treatment...
...because some AIDS victims could benefit from the new drug, he added that the company should release it now, before it decides exactly how much better or worse ddI is than AZT and what the proper dosage of ddI should...
Groopman was one of the first to test AZT, oneof the most common drugs used today to treat AIDSpatients. Hirsch was among the first to showincreased effectiveness of a combination of AZTand another preventative drug...