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Neurology and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Book; Oxford University Press, 2001

Subjects:

Aids (Disease)--Complications, Aids Dementia Complex, Nervous System--Infections

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...al. Muscle disease, HIV and zidovudine: The spectrum of mus- cle disease...infected individuals treated with zidovudine. J Neurol 1993;240:479...muscle mitochondria in- duced by zidovudine (AZT) in human muscle and in...
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AIDS and HIV-Related Diseases: An Educational Guide for Professionals and the Public

Book by Josh Powell; Insight Books, 1996

Subjects:

Aids (Disease), Health Education, Hiv Infections

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Zidovudine Zidovudine previously known as AZT is used either alone or in combination with zalcitabine ddC in the treatment of the infection caused by HIV. Zidovudine is used to slow the progression of disease in patients infected with...
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HIV Infection and Intravenous Drug Use

Book by Gennaro Ottomanelli; Praeger Publishers, 1992

Subjects:

Aids (Disease), Intravenous Drug Abuse--Complications

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...confusion 11% . TREATMENT FOR HIV INFECTION Zidovudine formerly AZT was approved in 1987 for...per cubic millimeter. Problems with zidovudine include toxicity and lack of clinical...after extended use one to three years of zidovudine , which is presumed to be partly attributable...
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The Catastrophe Ahead: AIDS and the Case for a New Public Policy

Book by William B. Johnston, Kevin R. Hopkins, G. A. Keyworth; Praeger, 1990

Subjects:

Aids (Disease)--Government Policy--United States

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...et al., "Interferon-alpha Plus Zidovudine: A Phase I Trial in AIDS-associated...Combination of Interferon-alpha and Zidovudine for Therapy of HIV-associated Kaposis...Inhibition is Sustained by Alternating Zidovudine AZT and 2, 3Dideoxtcytidine ddC but...
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Preventing AIDS: A Sourcebook for Behavioral Interventions

Book by Seth C. Kalichman; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998

Subjects:

Aids (Disease)--Prevention, Aids (Disease)--Risk Factors

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...transcriptase inhibitor was zidovudine AZT , a drug developed in the...Numerous studies have shown that zidovudine is effective in slowing HIV...people treated. Effects of zidovudine treatment include increased...

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Treatment of HIV-Positive Pregnant Women Lowers Infection Risk of Infants

Journal article by M. Klitsch; International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Vol. 28, 2002

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HIV infection in children--Prevention, HIV patients--Drug therapy, Pediatric HIV infections--Prevention, Pregnant women, Zidovudine--Physiological aspects

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...during labor with a short course of zidovudine, their childs likelihood of later becoming...infected mothers who had been treated with zidovudine around the time of delivery were about...a placebo. The protective effect of zidovudine treatment, however, could be detected...
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Risk of Death or HIV Infection Similar for Two Infant Feeding Regimens

Journal article by S. London; International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Vol. 32, 2006

Subjects:

HIV infection--Health aspects, HIV infection--Risk factors, HIV infections--Health aspects, HIV infections--Risk factors, Infants--Health aspects, Zidovudine--Complications and side effects

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...those who are fed breast milk and given zidovudine for the first six months of life have...infants who are fed formula and given zidovudine for the first month, according to a...intervention (breast-feeding plus zidovudine vs. formula feeding plus zidovudine...
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Short Anti-HIV Treatment Okay for Infant If Mother Receives Standard Regimen

Journal article by A. Hirozawa; International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Vol. 27, 2001

Subjects:

Family planning--Research, HIV infection--Prevention, HIV infections--Prevention, Zidovudine--Health aspects

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...Regimen. by A. Hirozawa The standard zidovudine regimen given to expectant mothers and...determine whether the standard regimen of zidovudine could be shortened without increasing...to the standard regimen received oral zidovudine starting at 28 weeks gestation and continuing...
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Marginal Structural Models to Estimate the Joint Causal Effect of Nonrandomized Treatments

Journal article by Miguel A. Hernan, Babette Brumback, James M. Robins; Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 96, 2001

Subjects:

AIDS (Disease)--Care and treatment, AIDS patients--Statistics, Anti-HIV agents--Usage, Failure time data analysis--Usage, Gay men--Health aspects, HIV infection--Drug therapy, HIV infections--Drug therapy, Immunology, Mathematical models--Usage, Medicine, Pneumocystis carinii--Drug therapy, Sexually transmitted disease research, Statistics (Data)--Research, Statistics (Mathematics), Statistics--Research, Viral research, Zidovudine--Evaluation

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...model to estimate the joint effect of zidovudine (AZT) and prophylaxis therapy for...dependent nonrandomized treatments, zidovudine (AZT) therapy and prophylaxis therapy...Prophylaxis on Mortality, MACS Variable a Zidovudine Prophylaxis Age Year 1985 1986 1987...
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AZT Trials and Tribulations

Journal article by Robert A. Crouch, John D. Arras; The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 28, 1998

Subjects:

Disease transmission, HIV infection, HIV infections, Maternal-fetal exchange--Health aspects, Zidovudine--Testing

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...completion of a placebo-controlled trial of zidovudine (AZT) in pregnant women in Thailand...as does the real possibility that zidovudine-resistant HIV variants may develop...and Prevention, "Administration of Zidovudine During Late Pregnancy and Delivery to...

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Fast-Tracking the First AIDS Drug

Magazine article by Brad Stone; FDA Consumer, Vol. 21, October 1987

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AIDS (Disease)--Drug therapy, Bilstad, James--Interviews, Cooper, Ellen--Interviews, Retrovir (Medication)--Physiological aspects, Zidovudine--Physiological aspects

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...First AIDS Drug. by Brad Stone The drug zidovudine, brand name Retrovir (formerly called...to expedite the testing and review of zidovudine. FDA approved the drug to treat certain...important new drug. FDA CONSUMER: Zidovudine is categorized as an anti-viral drug...
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Progress Reports in the Battle against Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Magazine article; FDA Consumer, Vol. 23, October 1989

Subjects:

AIDS (Disease), AIDS (Disease) in pregnancy--Drug therapy, AIDS (Disease)--Drug therapy, HIV (Viruses)--Testing, HIV--Testing, Information services, Pregnancy--Drug therapy, Zidovudine--Research

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...and need for hospitalization. Zidovudine for Pregnant Women FDA recently...first trials of the AIDS drug zidovudine (also called AZT) in pregnant...disease. As part of the study, zidovudine, the only approved antiviral...
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First AIDS Drug Approved

Magazine article; FDA Consumer, Vol. 21, June 1987

Subjects:

AIDS (Disease)--Drug therapy, United States. Food and Drug Administration--Licensing agreements, Zidovudine--Licensing agreements

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...acquired immune deficiencysyndrome) approved by the Food and Drug Administration, AZT (azidothymidine, also known as zidovudine), is not a cure. But it can improve the short-term survival of AIDS patients with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and...
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Children with AIDS

Magazine article by Cheryl Platzman Weinstock; FDA Consumer, Vol. 24, October 1990

Subjects:

AIDS (Disease) in children--Demographic aspects, Disease transmission, HIV infection, HIV infections, Pediatric AIDS (Disease)--Demographic aspects, Zidovudine--Evaluation

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...Infections Diseases (NIAID) AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG). AZT for Children In May 1990, as a result of these trials, zidovudine (commonly called AZT) was the first drug approved for children with symptomatic HIV infection or AIDS. AZT was first approved...
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A Progress Report on AIDS Research

Magazine article by Marian Segal; FDA Consumer, Vol. 21, October 1987

Subjects:

AIDS (Disease)--Research, AIDS research, HIV (Viruses)--Research, HIV--Research, Zidovudine--Physiological aspects

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...the virus at the point where RNA is converted to DNA by blocking the action of reverse transcriptase. Among these drugs are zidovudine (also known as AZT)--the only drug currently approved by FDA for treating AIDS--and dideoxycytidine (DDC), now...

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FDA to Allow Generic Version of Life-Prolonging AIDS Drug

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 14, 2005

Subjects:

United States. Food and Drug Administration

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Laboratories Ltd. of Gurgaon, India, under the generic name zidovudine, cannot be marketed for now in the United States because...can be sold in this country in the future. The FDA says the zidovudine tablets are the 10th product for which the agency has given...
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My World; Exclusive: Brave Lisa's Story

Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), February 6, 2011

Subjects:

Sheridan, Lisa

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...was whether the court should intervene to direct three anti-retroviral drugs be administered to the child - Nevirapine, Zidovudine and Lamivudine - without delay after birth and for four weeks. The latest figures by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre...
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HIV Hope in South Africa

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 29, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the International Aids Society (IAS), results from the first of these studies demonstrated that a one-month course of Zidovudine (ZDV) used from 36 weeks gestation until delivery was well-tolerated, safe and reduced the risk of transmission by half...
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Global Conference to Focus on New Tactics against HIV

Newspaper article by Ruth Larson; The Washington Times, June 27, 1998

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...taken simultaneously, suppressed the HIV in 78 percent of patients for at least two years. The three drugs - indinavir, zidovudine (AZT) and lamivudine - were much less effective when used sequentially over a series of months, when the virus was suppressed...
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The City

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 4, 2000

Subjects:

Chicago, Illinois

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Screening could reduce the number of infected infants by allowing doctors to give infected mothers-to-be the anti-HIV drug zidovudine, AZT, and to take other precautions during delivery. Local lawyer named to Amtrak council A high-speed rail advocate...

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Azt

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

AZT or zidovudine zido vyooden , drug used to treat patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV ), which causes AIDS ; also called...
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Antiviral Drug

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...speed the healing of herpes zoster (shingles). The search for cures and palliatives for AIDS has yielded drugs such as zidovudine ( AZT ), which inhibits the transcription of RNA to DNA in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Ganciclovir and cidofovir...

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