Today the Food and Drug Administration approved a new, extended release formulation of ZERIT ( stavudine , d4T ) called ZERIT XR. This extended-release formulation has been demonstrated to maintain measurable plasma concentrations for 24 hours after once-daily dosing.
On December 2, 2002, the HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service (ACTIS) and its sister service, the HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service (ATIS), will be merged into a single website called http://www.AIDSinfo.nih.gov. The AIDSinfo project will include all of the services already available from ACTIS and ATIS, a
HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new rapid HIV diagnostic test kit that provides results with 99.6 percent accuracy in as little as 20 minutes. Using less than a drop of blood collected, this new test can quickly and reliably detect antibodies to
The Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) today announced that Abbott Laboratories , Inc., has initiated a worldwide recall of 32 lots of laboratory kits used to diagnose gonorrhea. The kits have been shown to be unreliable because they may give false negative results. These test kits were distributed to hospitals and l
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