Word: burroughses
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Doctors warn that it is not an aphrodisiac or a "sex pill." But a drug developed by Burroughs Wellcome to treat depression does have an interesting side effect: it increases sexual desire. Of 60 test subjects who took Wellbutrin at San Diego's Crenshaw Clinic, 63% had heightened libidos, a...
Racing against the clock, scientists develop a drug that is at least partly effective against AIDS, and the Food and Drug Administration okays it in record time. Instead of applause, the approval of Retrovir (formerly known as AZT) has provoked outrage in some quarters. On Wall Street last week, 300...
Ironically, the crash program for developing Retrovir may have contributed to its high price. To make the drug available as quickly as possible, "we have literally turned our company upside down," said Burroughs Wellcome Vice President Thomas Kennedy at a press conference last week. The company says it takes seven...
In the land of apartheid, Perkins and his wife Lucy, who is Chinese-born, have had few problems with whites. The country has become accustomed to visiting blacks. American blacks have already served as diplomats and foreign correspondents in South Africa for many years, and the current U.S. consul general...
The most encouraging difference between AIDS and epidemics of the past is the pace at which medicine is coming to grips with the crisis. "We're talking about a disease that was recognized from a practical point of view only in 1981," says Dr. Samuel Broder, who oversees the development...