Novel approach may roust HIV from its hiding places
...he brain and testes may offer a new way to enhance antiviral therapy for people with AIDS. The challenge of fin...itors is a novel approach in attempting to enhance antiviral treatment for AIDS....New approach to antibiotic resistance
...ame method might be used to develop anticancer and antiviral agents, he added. Although human testing is expected to begin within six months, any solution to the problem of antibiotic resistance is temporary, Wong said. "The best we can do is slow down the development of resistance," Wong said. "It's just a ma...Product design and drug development breakthroughs help the environment
...oped a new and efficient way to produce the potent antiviral agent ganciclovir (Cytovene7). Cytovene7 is prescribed to treat certain dangerous infections in AIDS or organ transplant patients. The new method dramatically reduces the amount of hazardous solid and liquid waste as well as potentially harmful chemi......lfa interferon, which has been shown to exert both antiviral and immunomodulatory effects. Schering-Plough Corp...markets interferon alfa 2b (INTRON A) for 16 major antiviral and anticancer indications worldwide. A major concern with interferon alfa 2b use has been that mos...Molecules inhibit HIV protease, could lead to new line of attack against AIDS
...commercially as catalysts and others possess known antiviral activities. The researchers were surprised to discover that the POM molecule inhibited protease, Hill said. The finding defies conventional wisdom that effective drugs must bind at the enzyme's active site, he added. More laboratory work must be done...The molecular evolution of viral drug resistance
...scribe the effects of a battery of newly developed antiviral agents on this process, comparing wild-type HBV with several known polymerase point mutants. They confirm that the efficacy of lamivudine, now the standard drug used for controlling HBV, is greatly diminished in all of the drug-resistant viruses stud...Study finds troubling trends in hepatitis C screening, diagnosis and referral
... therapy that uses a new form of interferon and an antiviral drug. So, the question of why only 57 percent of hepatitis C-infected patients in the study were referred to specialists puzzles Lok and her colleagues. They plan to look at the question prospectively, to see if race, gender, medical, insurance or ot...New combination treatment for hepatitis C may be more effective than standard of care
...ment with a new long-acting interferon drug and an antiviral medication may be more effective than the current ...ron alfa-2a (Pegasys) in combination with the oral antiviral medication, ribavirin, than among those treated with interferon alfa-2b plus ribavirin (Rebetron), t...Study supports triple combination therapy for HIV
... in this weeks BMJ supports the use of up to three antiviral drugs (triple therapy) to treat people with HIV. R...ts with HIV infection who had not already received antiviral therapy. Combinations of up to three drugs were consistently and significantly more effective, but t...UCLA scientists discover African strain of AIDS in two American infants
...howed that both children had responded well to the antiviral drugs. At the end of the year, however, the team remeasured the childrens viral loads with another diagnostic method designed to detect non-B viral strains. Not only did the researchers discover that the two children carried African strains of HIV, b...HIV patients have no progression of HIV after liver transplants, Pitt study reports
...ithout HIV co-infection, with similar responses to antiviral therapy, Dr. de Vera stated. Eight patients with HIV and HCV co-infection have been transplanted at the University of Pittsburgh since 1997. Two died for reasons unrelated to complications of either their HIV or HCV....Steroid pill prolongs survival in patients with multiple myeloma
...though some studies have shown that interferon (an antiviral drug) slightly prolongs remission in patients with multiple myeloma, it has not been shown to improve their overall survival. Steroids, however, have been found to inhibit tumor growth in multiple myeloma. Prednisone, for example, is a steroid that...Chicago researchers testing HIV vaccine for healthy people
... prevention and treatment of HIV-1 elicit specific antiviral cellular immune responses and are generally well tolerated. Sha is recruiting healthy patients between the ages 18-50 with no kidney or liver diseases and who are not pregnant. After each injection, patients will be given liver and kidney tests and...Drug used in treatment of alcoholism may have role in treatment of HIV
... to cell cultures containing AZT or indinavir, the antiviral activityof these drugs increased. WHAT IT MEANS: Naltrexone is a novel approach to HIV treatment since it appears to target the cells infected with the virus rather than the virus itself, unlike current treatment medications....New approach to post-transplant lymphoma shows promise
...ng a two-part therapy that includes the use of the antiviral drug acyclovir along with gradual reductions in pa...hemotherapy to kill the lymphoma cells, the use of antiviral agents to disable the EBV, or monoclonal antibody therapy designed to impact changes in the bloods B...Drug resistance may prove more pervasive in African HIV
...egative implications for the long-term efficacy of antiviral therapies in patients infected with the African su...ical data available so far on the effectiveness of antiviral drugs in C and A subtype patients suggest initial responses to the drugs are similar to those achiev...New cold treatment developed at the University of Virginia
... symptoms. One ingredient of the treatment was the antiviral drug interferon, which attacks the virus infection...more effective than symptomatic cold treatments or antiviral treatment used alone," Gwaltney said....Stanford researcher shows flu shot benefits outweigh costs in healthy young adults
...its if you vaccinate the entire population and use antiviral medications on those who get sick." In...flu vaccination and treatment of flu patients with antiviral medication in healthy adults ages 18 to 50. These included costs of the vaccine and drugs, lost work...Annals of Internal Medicine Aug. 20 tip sheet
...ost of treatment. Researchers also looked at three antiviral medicines for treating the flu and concluded that, if started within 48 hours of developing flu symptoms, all were worth their cost in terms of workdays gained. Head-to-head comparisons of the drugs are needed to determine which drug is most cost-ef...New combination treatment for hepatitis C reported more beneficial than standard therapy
...asys) - a new long-acting interferon drug - and an antiviral medication is more beneficial than the standard co...peginterferon alfa-2a in combination with the oral antiviral medication, ribavirin, is linked to a lower rate of troublesome side effects - depression, flu-like ...