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Article: New drugs hold out hope for managing AIDS.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- February 1, 1996
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a moment of encouragement.
Researchers attending the Third Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections here heard reports from two drug companies that a new type of drug can significantly prolong the lives of AIDS victims.
``We're on the threshold of being able to add years of quality life to AIDS patients,'' Jack Killen, director of the National Institute of Health's AIDS research division, said this week.
The new drugs, called protease inhibitors, are much more effective than the older class of AIDS drugs, called reverse transcriptase inhibitors. Each strikes at a different point in the cycle of the virus' spread. And when the new drugs ...