Showing posts with label early. Show all posts
Showing posts with label early. Show all posts

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Start HIV Meds Early - Live Longer

Updated May 7, 2021

Original links broke.

You can still read about the topic here:

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This Medical News Today article reports, "Early Initiation Of Antiretroviral Therapy Improves HIV Survival Rates, Study Says." The study results are available on the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) site, "Effect of Early versus Deferred Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV on Survival. This recent research "provides evidence that patients would live longer if antiretroviral treatment was begun when their CD4+ count was above 500." As with these kinds of studies, there's also the counterpoint opinion, such as this editorial, "When To Start Antiretroviral Therapy: Ready When You Are?" .... darn, NEJM truncated it... go back to the Medical News Today article, they summarize the gist of the editorial. 


Monday, April 20, 2009

FDA GCP - Tips On Conducting non-US Studies

If you're looking to conduct clinical studies outside the U.S., you might do well to read this superb article from Bruce Mackler on GEN, "Spotlight on the FDA Outsourcing Clinicals; Medical Journal Articles; and Contract Manufacturing Liability Issues. Mackler says, "In today’s financing environment, the absence of early clinical data presents a high barrier to obtaining funding. Investors often say “show me the clinical data that show that the drug is safe and works and I will show you my money.” As a result, biopharma companies have moved into early non-U.S. clinical trials that have lower safety data burdens. These studies are being conducted in less wealthy (a.k.a., developing) countries, where Phase I trials can be more rapid and less costly. This strategy has been promoted by CROs established in these countries." The article provides some great tips, not to be overlooked. 


Sunday, October 26, 2008

Flash - HIV Drug Treatment Needs To Start Earlier

Fresh from the ICAAC & IDSA meeting in Washington, DC. In a nutshell, recent findings suggest that HIV drug therapy should be started earlier, reports this short The Spokesman-Review news article, "AIDS treatment should start sooner, study finds."

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