Word: ritonavir
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News from Abbott Laboratories that an experimental drug called ritonavir cut in half the death rate for a group of patients suffering from advanced AIDS--at least during the seven-month period of the study...
...Both ritonavir and indinavir belong to a promising new class of drugs called protease inhibitors, which block production of a key enzyme, protease, that the virus needs to replicate itself. It was only last December that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first protease inhibitor, Hoffmann-La Roche's saquinavir. Ritonavir and indinavir could get the FDA go-ahead--and reach doctor's offices--as early as this summer. "The data are as good as anything I've seen," says Dr. Anthony Fauci, a leading AIDS expert at the National Institutes of Health...
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