Word: ganciclovir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beginning in 1984, the FDA permitted the Syntex pharmaceutical firm to give doctors free ganciclovir, a drug used to treat eye infections that frequently blind AIDS patients, under a special program that allows "compassionate use" of unproven drugs. Doctors who have dispensed the drug are convinced that it works, but all the conventional controlled studies have not been done. Nonetheless, the FDA last week approved ganciclovir for full marketing and sales. The agency also gave the go-ahead for wider distribution of another unproven drug, erythropoietin, which is used in cases of AIDS-associated anemia...
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