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But in other parts of the country, unwarranted fears of catching AIDS through casual contact manifested themselves in the workplace and on the ballot. After pinning an antihomosexual slogan to the wall of their garage, 29 New England Telephone Co. technicians staged a one-day walkout in Needham, Mass., to...
The Burroughs Wellcome Company, of Research Triangle Park, N.C., which produces AZT, asked for FDA authorization for large scale clinical testing of the drug after controlled trials showed that it is beneficial to AIDS patients who have recovered from one or more bouts with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP).
From the start, the company and an independent review board had agreed that if AZT proved to be toxic, the patients would immediately be taken off the drug and the test halted. But if AZT turned out to be clearly beneficial, it would immediately be offered to those patients who...
Scientists at Burroughs Wellcome suspected that the long-unused AZT might be what was needed to stop the AIDS virus. They discovered that when the drug enters a human cell, it is converted by a human enzyme into a "false sugar" ) that resembles, but is not identical to, the sugar...
At the request of Burroughs Wellcome, Samuel Broder and his colleagues at NCI and other institutions tested AZT in late 1984 and early 1985 on AIDS- infected human cells in the test tube and found that it seemed to interfere with viral reproduction. Subsequently, they began testing the drug on...