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发表于 2002-9-20 22:29
THis is from the CDC daily eletter Prevention news update. Read the last two lines carefully!!!!!!!!!
In a message dated 9/16/02 2:50:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
> "Hepatitis B: FDA Advisers Plug New Drug"
> AIDS Weekly (09.02.02)
> A failed HIV medication should be used to treat the liver-
> destroying hepatitis B virus, advisers to the US Food and Drug
> Administration have concluded. If the FDA agrees and makes the
> use official, Gilead Science's adefovir will become the first new
> treatment in years for the estimated 1.2 million Americans with
> the potentially deadly hepatitis infection. Adefovir, originally
> tested as a potential treatment for AIDS, can be toxic to the
> kidneys when used at the high doses needed to treat HIV/AIDS. At
> lower doses adefovir does not cure the chronic infection of
> hepatitis B, but studies show that liver cirrhosis, as measured
> by biopsies, improved in 56-66 percent of patients testing the
> drug, according to Gilead Vice President John Milligan. >FDA advisers recommend that all patients get a blood test to check
> for kidney damage every month or two for as long as they take the
> drug. Stopping adefovir at the first sign of kidney damage allows
> most people to recover but the risk proved greater for more
> advanced hepatitis patients, according to Debra Birnkrant, FDA
> antiviral drugs chief.
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