By Mark Harrington March 2002 Twenty-one years into the HIV pandemic the World Health Organization (WHO) has loosened itself from its slothlike lethargy and bureaucratic torpor to produce, seemingly with great reluctance and certainly with great confusion, a draft document…
Two New HIV Vaccine Studies Published In the Journal Nature By Richard Jeffreys March 1, 2002 January 2002 proved to be a month of mixed blessings for the AIDS vaccine field. A slew of new papers in the prestigious journal…
Bioterror Buys a Budget Boost By Mark Harrington February 2002 Ten years ago, TAG was one of the only voices calling for the nation to double its investment in biomedical research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). We felt…
By Yvette Delph, MD October 3, 2001 1. INTRODUCTION In May 2001, Gilead Sciences submitted New Drug Application (NDA) 21-356 to the FDA for its VireadTM brand of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF). Gilead is seeking accelerated approval for TDF to…
Its Rapid Rise & Fall June 2001 by Mark Harrington From the Introduction If you don't have the survival data, how are you exercising your clinical judgement?... I find it hard to understand how anyone could feel that it is…
by Michael Marco 27 February 2001 On 27 February 2001, the FDA's Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee will consider an application for approval of Hoffmann-La Roche's valganciclovir for the treatment of cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis in patients with AIDS. BACKGROUND Cytomegalovirus (CMV)…
January 31, 2001 STRUCTURED TREATMENT INTERRUPTIONS WORKSHOP Workshop Summary The investigation of Structured Treatment Interruption (STI) has fluid borders. Interruption is considered a treatment strategy per se, an adjunct to treatment, as well as the removal of treatment. Though first…
by Derek Link with Mark Harrington July 2000 Introduction Ten years ago, when the AIDS death toll in the United States crossed 100,000, few paid heed to a grim prediction by the World Health Organization (WHO) that "by the year…