New Type of HIV Drug Wins Federal Approval
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From Times Wire Reports
Patients who are running out of medicines to fight the AIDS virus won a new option, as the government approved a dramatically different HIV drug.
The drug may be helpful to as many as 100,000 U.S. patients, though its price could put it out of many people’s reach. Manufacturers said it should be available by the end of the month.
Fuzeon is the first in a new class of medications, called fusion inhibitors, that work by helping to block HIV from getting inside the immune-system cells that they ultimately kill.
