June 17, 2010 Dr. Susan Cox Former Senior Vice President, Drug Development at Avexa Cc: Nathan Drona, Chairman of the Board at Avexa Stephen Kerr, Board Secretary We, the undersigned, are asking the decision makers at Avexa to reconsider the decision to stop the development of apricitabine, a nucleoside analog that has shown good efficacy in …
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I am scared that companies are dropping new HIV medications Jun 17, 2010 Nelson, I emailed you before and you told me there were a few medications in research for people with resistance to all meds. But I just heard that two companies abandoned their research. What does that mean for someone like me who …
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17 May 2010 Paul Tran, BS Pharrn, RPh Advisors and Consultants Staff Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Food and Drug Administration 5630 Fishers Lane, HFD-21 Rockville, MD 20857 Dear Mr. Tran: On behalf ofthe Drug Development Committee (DDC) ofthe AIDS Treatment Activists Coalition (ATAC), I am writing to urge members ofthe Endocrinologic and Metabolic …
17 May 2010 Paul Tran, BS Pharrn, RPh Advisors and Consultants Staff Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Food and Drug Administration 5630 Fishers Lane, HFD-21 Rockville, MD 20857 Dear Mr. Tran: On behalf ofthe Drug Development Committee (DDC) ofthe AIDS Treatment Activists Coalition (ATAC), I am writing to urge members ofthe Endocrinologic and Metabolic …
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LIPODYSTROPHY TREATMENT- PATIENT ACCEPTANCE DownloadCreate Chart1. Has your belly fat increased after starting HIV medications? answered question 85 skipped question 2 Response Percent Response Count Yes 92.9% 79 No 7.1% 6 DownloadCreate Chart2. Would you be willing to inject a drug daily under your skin in your belly to decrease your belly fat by 13% …
1. How old are you? answered question 1,325 skipped question 6 ResponsePercent ResponseCount Under 15 years old 0.3% 4 15-20 0.2% 2 20-25 0.5% 7 25-30 1.7% 23 30-35 4.8% 63 35-40 7.8% 104 40-45 23.1% 306 45-50 22.6% 299 50-55 20.8% 275 55-60 11.4% 151 Over 60 6.9% 91 DownloadCreate Chart2. What is your …
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FROM POZ.COM May 27, 2010 FDA Committee Unanimously Recommends Egrifta for Lipodystrophy A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee has unanimously recommended that Egrifta (tesamorelin), Montreal-based Theratechnologies’ experimental product for the treatment of excess abdominal fat in HIV-positive people with lipodystrophy, be approved by the agency. Though the FDA is not required to …
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Excellent summary tables on the use of micronutrients in HIV published in Am J Clin Nutr 2007;85:333–45. Printed in USA. © 2007 American Society for Nutrition https://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/85/2/333 Reference Study design, location, and population Vitamin concentrations1 Results and conclusions Cross-sectional studies Toma et al, 2001 (93) Cross-sectional study in Canada. 11 HIV-positive adults (6 receiving HAART …
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The top two cancers are HPV related The rates of anal cancer in HIV have increased as we live longer.
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