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...Harvard-affiliated hospitals can care for people who contract AIDS or test positive for the virus, say directors. An insurance program introduced this year at UHS to help cover pharmaceutical costs will help defray costs for AZT, an expensive drug used to treat AIDS, they...
...complexity of the virus makes progress toward a cure extremely difficult, though doctors can often treat related illnesses. Some drugs, notably AZT, have been shown to slow the progress of AIDS or its related symptoms...
...after vociferous protests from people suffering from AIDS, the agency established a fast track for drugs that might help in the fight against the eight-year-old epidemic. So far, however, only one very expensive medication, which can cause severe anemia, has been approved -- Burroughs Wellcome's Zidovudine, or AZT...
...that interfere with replication, they established an approach that led to new drug therapies for many diseases, including leukemia and malaria. In 1957 Elion and Hitchings developed the drug, azathioprine, that controlled rejection in organ transplants. That led to the development of acyclovir for the treatment of herpes and AZT, the only drug approved by the Federal Government for AIDS...
Clinicians are also continuing to study the chemical AZT, which has been successful in prolonging the lives of AIDS patients...