Topic: Truvada
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved on Wednesday a once-daily experimental HIV drug from Gilead Sciences Inc.The once-daily AIDS pill Complera combines Gilead's Truvada with Johnson & Johnson's Edurant.Gilead currently sells another once-daily pill, Atripla, that combines Truvada ...
Volunteers who responded most to a cocktail of antiretroviral drugs in an HIV prevention trial among gay men had a reduced risk of 92 percent of being infected by the AIDS virus, researchers said on Wednesday.They presented the work as a last-minute, ...
LONDON (Reuters) - AIDS drugs used to treat HIV can also be used to prevent infection among heterosexual men and women, according to the results of two studies conducted in Africa released on Wednesday.The findings add to growing evidence that drugs used ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc, the leading maker of HIV drugs, said it received a subpoena for documents related to its manufacture, quality and distribution practices.News of the subpoena, from the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Only high-risk gay and bisexual men should use Gilead's HIV drug Truvada to protect themselves from the AIDS virus, federal officials said on Thursday in the first official guidance on using the drug.A study published last November showed that ...
AIDS prevention advocates are hailing a pill newly shown to protect against HIV as a great tool for disease prevention.. A study released Tuesday showed that daily doses of a drug called Truvada, already used to treat HIV infection, cut the risk ...
Most hopeful day in 30 years of AIDS: preventive pill, drop in cases, pope's revised stanceIn the nearly 30 years the AIDS epidemic has raged, there has never been a more hopeful day than this.Three striking developments took place Tuesday: U.N. officials ...
A global study has found gay men who faithfully take daily doses of the HIV drug Truvada, can slash the risk of catching the infection by an astonishing 73%. Researchers say Truvada was used in combination with counseling, condoms and other prevention ...
Scientists have an exciting breakthrough in the fight against AIDS. Daily doses of Truvada cut the risk of infection by 44 percent when given with condoms, counseling and other prevention services. a major milestone," said a statment from Mitchell Warren, head of ...
A pill a day cut the risk of HIV infection by almost 44 percent in those at highest risk for contracting the virus, namely sexually active gay and bisexual men, a new study finds.. The reduction in risk climbed to nearly 73 ...
