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Merck & Co. will provide free Crixivan, an experimental AIDS medicine, to 1,400 people in the later stages of the disease. Recipients will be selected by a special lottery within the U.S. Last month Hoffman-La Roche Inc. created 2,280 slots for a similar lottery to receive the AIDS drug Invirase...
...hopes on the dark horizon of an AIDS patient. Recent studies, including one reported at last month's International Conference on AIDS in Florence, have shown that DDC, formally known as dideoxycytidine, can reduce the activity of the AIDS virus, especially in combination with the medication AZT. Although Hoffman-La Roche has made the drug available to 4,000 participants in a research program, many people remain ineligible because they are on other anti-AIDS drugs or do not yet have symptoms of the disease. But the major obstacle is that the drug has yet to be approved...
AIDS patients feel that their bleak situation justifies the illegal trade. Hoffman-La Roche contends that the counterfeit pills may contain dangerous contaminants or that they may be formulated in incorrect, and possibly toxic, doses. But fear of the disease far outweighs any fear of the drug...
Seveso, Italy, July 10,1976. Between 1 Ib. and 22 Ibs. of poisonous dioxin were released into the atmosphere over an area of 4,500 acres when a chemical reaction at the Hoffman-La Roche plant set off an explosion. More than 1,000 residents were forced to flee, and many children developed a disfiguring rash called chloracne, but no lives were lost...
...Hoffman-La Roche, maker of Valium and Librium, contends that the incidence of addiction is low. The problem, says the company, comes from a small group of patients who either intentionally overdose themselves, stay on the medication too long or combine it with alcohol. Nevertheless, the company plans an educational campaign to alert patients to the risks of misusing Valium...