The debunked claim that the AIDS drug AZT was responsible for deaths was amplified by X owner Elon Musk on the social-media platform when he reposted another user’s message on Tuesday. By Thursday ...

Jerome Horwitz, a medical researcher at Wayne State University in Detroit, had spent more than a decade developing a drug he hoped would work against cancer. But the compound failed to help the lab ...

Mike is an Orlando AIDS victim who has lived with the deadly illness for 18 months. Undaunted by the dire prognosis for his disease, he wants a chance at life. That chance boils down to a three-letter ...

Researchers have discovered the details of how HIV resists AZT. The scientists believe their discovery helps researchers understand how important anti-AIDS treatments can fail and could help AIDS ...

The Food and Drug Administration Thursday formally approved the anti-viral AIDS drug AZT to treat children, making it the first AIDS drug sanctioned as standard therapy for pediatric use. The drug was ...

It was 30 years ago this week that the Food and Drug Administration approved the first treatment for HIV/AIDS, the drug AZT. At a time when the number of AIDS-related deaths was skyrocketing, AZT was ...

The Aids Healthcare Foundation, the largest non-governmental supplier of Aids treatment to patients in the United States, won the first round of a legal battle yesterday to break GlaxoSmithKline's ...

WASHINGTON — A federal advisory panel recommended yesterday that the government approve the experimental antiviral AIDS drug DDC, but only to be used in combination with AZT, the most widely dispensed ...

DRUG HELPS AIDS VICTIMS. The drug AZT can improve memory and attention and ease other mental problems that are frequent symptoms of AIDS, a study in today’s New England Journal of Medicine says. That ...

In the largest study of its kind, doctors in five cities have found that people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus can delay progression to full-blown AIDS if they take the drug AZT and ...

When medical researcher Jerome P. Horwitz first synthesized the chemical compound AZT in the 1960s, he hoped it would be a successful treatment for cancer. At first, he thought he had failed. And in ...

Pennsylvania’s health and welfare departments want to help more people with AIDS receive the expensive AZT treatments for free, even after the federal grant period runs out Sept. 30, department ...