Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...host of opportunistic infections that attack many AIDS patients because their immune systems have already been weakened by the virus. Experts estimate that almost 50 percent of the nearly 12,000 living AIDS patients in the U.S. have had this rare form of pneumonia...
...manufacturer will make the drug available free of charge to most AIDS sufferers who have had the pneumonia within the last 120 days, the company said...
...AIDS sufferers -- who had been receiving only placebos, or dummy drugs -- could immediately begin treatment with AZT. Furthermore, Windom has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration for speedy approval to distribute the drug to thousands of other AIDS victims, but only those who have also suffered from Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), a rare form of pneumonia that frequently afflicts AIDS patients. David Barry, vice president for research at Burroughs Wellcome, the pharmaceutical firm that produces the drug, stressed to reporters that AZT was "not a cure for AIDS but rather a treatment." Over the next few months, he said...
...body. Most of the survivors, however, seem to be in fairly good condition. Despite the fact that there are lingering respiratory problems, doctors say the worst is over. Still, secondary infections are anticipated. Indeed, by week's end one Israeli medic had treated at least 50 cases of pneumonia, and more were expected to follow...