RETROVIR, a drug licensed in Britain for treating people with AIDS or
other symptoms of infection with HIV, may soon be available for treating
people with HIV who have shown no sign of illness. The Wellcome Foundation,
the British pharmaceuticals company, announced this week that it had won
provisional clearance from the Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products
of the European Commission to seek wider use for Retrovir. Individual member
states of the EC are now considering the committee’s recommendations.
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