Threshold, Schmeshold Long-Awaited Research Paper Takes on the Viral Diversity Threshold, Cannibalistic CTLs and NSI-to-SI Switch - Shining star of the new guard
Sacked on the Hill Licking Their Wounds Following a FY 1996 Budgetary Revocation, Activists Regroup for the Battle of 1997 - Of friends and fair weather
Random Gleanings Can HIV Be Eradicated from an Infected Individual?; The Seventy Percent Solution (a/k/a "Fools Rush In ..."); Nearly One Third Either Slow or Fast Progressors
June, 1996
Clinically Clueless Keystone Group Addresses Crisis in Post-Marketing Treatment Research and Access to FDA-Approved Therapies - So many drugs, so little data
Review and Reform OAR Advisory Panel Would Meld 12 Trials Networks into One and Requests Improved Institute Collaboration - 15 studies of oral interferon
The Six Area Review Panels (ARPs) Of the NIH AIDS Research Program Evaluation Working Group of the Office of AIDS Research (OAR) Advisory Council (the "Levine Committee")
Monitoring, Not Management Roche Requests Approval from FDA's Blood Products Committee for Its PCR Diagnostic - 7/10ths a log of 'noise'
Deconstructing the Drama Former ACT UP/NY Scientific Wunderkind Denounces Movement As "Messianic Utopianism" - AIDS activism as religious cult
Comparing Protease Combinations Reported maximum average reductions in plasma RNA with selected protease inhibitor combinations (in treament naive/experienced* individuals)
The Race to Ritonavir FDA Approves Second Protease Inhibitor in Record Time - As Abbott Chief Warns Many to "Wait for the data" - And indinavir makes three
Comparing the (RTI) Combinations Reported maximum average reductions in plasma HIV RNA with selected RTI combination regimens (in treatment naive individuals)
Azithro v. Clarithro Two Drugs Might Be Better Than One for Prophylaxis of M. Avium Disease, But Are Any of Them Clarithromycin? - 24-29% with resistant bugs
Random Gleanings Expanded Access for Nevirapine and Delavirdine; OAR Loses Out on 1996 Budgetary Authority; Lowering the Vaccine Goalpost
White House Summit Clinton, Shalala, Fleming Host Gathering of AIDS Advocates, Care Givers and People Living with HIV at Day-Long Conference - Election year sleight of hand?