News tagged with 'Aids Drugs'

A report in this month's issue of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology reveals that the HIV medication ritonavir, sold under the brand name Norvir, has a cytotoxic (toxic to cells) effect on the human body, which researchers say may lead to DNA damage and atherosclerosis (degeneration of the inner layer of

A report in next month's issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases links the HIV medication Ziagen to Stevens-Johnson syndrome. Authored by French physicians from Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris, the article analyzes the case of a 37-year-old HIV-infected man who contracted Stevens-Johnson 13 days after beginning trea

According to an Italian study presented at this year's 14th International AIDS Conference in Barcelona, Spain, medications known as protease inhibitors may increase a patient's risk of developing heart disease. Since their initial use in the mid-1990s to fight the spread of HIV, protease inhibitors have been linked to

Serono, Inc. has recently become aware of a counterfeit lot of Serono's Serostim [somatropin (rDNA origin) for injection]. The counterfeit material has been packaged to appear as drug product lot number S810-1A1. This is not a legitimate Serostim lot number. Serono has notified the appropriate regulatory and law enforc

GlaxoSmithKline announced Friday that the company has received four reports of suspect bottles containing 60 tablets of Combivir (lamivudine plus zidovudine) that actually contained another medicine, Ziagen (abacavir sulfate) Tablets. The company has determined that counterfeit labels for Combivir Tablets were placed o

According to a new study reported in this month's issue of Sexually Transmitted Infections, women who take HIV drug combinations during their first trimester may increase their risk of bearing children with birth defects. Dr. Graham Taylor of Imperial College in London studied 195 HIV-infected mothers. Dr. Taylor foun