We Can Teach Old Drugs New Tricks -- and We Should - Huffington Post

But in the 1960s, AZT was approved by the FDA to treat cancer and was soon shelved for failing to show efficacy. Twenty years later, a collaborative effort between the NIH and industry allowed the NIH to repurpose AZT because it proved effective against ...

Duke researchers trick cancer with decoy molecules - The News & Observer

“Many antiviral drugs, including the hepatitis C drug Ribavirin and the HIV drug AZT, are also known to be transported through CNTs,” Lee said. “We would hope that the implications of our research could improve antiviral drug delivery.

ACT UP: Fight Back, Tax Wall Street - EDGE Boston

"Twenty-five years ago we were in front of Trinity Church. People were sick and dying, and they couldn’t even get the one medication that was available, AZT, which wasn’t even a good one," said ACT UP’s Andrew Vélez. "Here we are 25 years later ...

Time to Change the PEP Guidelines? - Medscape News

These completion rates were comparable to those previously reported for tenofovir/FTC alone and better than those previously reported for AZT/3TC plus a PI.

Oil Tankers and Oil Pipelines Too Great a Risk, Say Canadians for the Great Bear - msnbc.com

"I am a Canadian for the Great Bear because the risks of an oil tanker or pipeline spill far outweigh any potential rewards," says Grand Chief Edward John, Hereditary Chief of Tl'azt'en Nation. "The proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline has united ...

NIH, companies aim to teach old drugs new tricks - Yahoo Finance

Consider: A failed cancer drug turned into the first effective AIDS treatment, AZT. The notorious thalidomide caused birth defects in the 1960s when some countries used it for morning sickness, but today it treats multiple myeloma. The bone drug ...

New Orleans AIDS clinic sets up shop on Poydras Street - nola.com

But only one antiviral drug — AZT — was available, and not everyone could benefit from it. Consequently, at that point, as the epidemic was entering its seventh year, infection was tantamount to a death sentence. Since the 1990s, a cavalcade ...

The man who made cancer drugs affordable and made millions - Daily News and Analysis

In the early 1990s, a few years after India had reported its first case of AIDS, the Indian Council on Medical Research asked him if he could make a version of Glaxo Wellcome's AZT, the first Aids medicine. Within two years, CIPLA came up with a product ...

Drug giants will see whether old drugs can offer new help - Las Vegas Review Journal

Consider: A failed cancer drug turned into the first effective AIDS treatment, AZT. The notorious thalidomide caused birth defects in the 1960s when some countries used it for morning sickness, but today it treats multiple myeloma. The bone drug ...

NIH launches program to spur new drug therapies - CNN

The HIV prevention drug AZT is an example of a drug that was a failure against it's first opponent - cancer. According to Collins, it currently takes on average $2 billion over a 14-year period to move a drug discovery from the lab to treatment.