"It is the prescribed drugs that are doing the killing"
SO TRUE.
"ONLY 1% TAKING HAART IN 1996" - FOUR YEARS AFTER DRAMATIC DECREASE IN MORTALITIES STARTED.
The proportion of patients receiving HAART changed significantly over the
course of VATS…In January 1996, only 1% of 83 active patients were taking
HAART. This proportion increased to 52% on 1 January 1997, 69% on 1
January 1998, and 79% on 1 January 1999. At the time of enrollment, 31% of
patients were taking no antiretroviral medication, 44% were taking
antiretroviral medication other than HAART, and 24% were taking HAART. "
Murphy EL et al. Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Decreases Mortality
and Morbidity in Patients with Advanced HIV Disease. Ann Intern Med. 2001
Jul 3;135(1):17-26 .
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“These long-term nonprogressors [Hiv+ people who remained healthy] are a heterogeneous group with respect to viral load and HIV-1 responses…none had been treated with antiretroviral agents.”
AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, 12: 585 (1996)
– Harrer, Thomas, et al, Aids Researchers
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“Subjects: homosexual men in Amsterdam. “None of the LTAs [long-term asymptomatics–people who remained healthy]…received any antiviral drugs during the study [7 years].”
Journal of Infectious Diseases, 171:811 (1995)
– Hogervorst E, et al, Aids Researchers
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Only 38% of the HLP [Healthy long-term positives] had ever used zidovudine [AZT]
“…588 men; 42 were 10-15 year non-progressors. Only 38% of the HLP [Healthy long-term positives] had ever used zidovudine [AZT] or other nucleoside analogues, compared with 94% of the progressors [those who
developed AIDS].”
AIDS, 8:1123 (1994)
– Buchbinder, Susan, et al, Aids Researchers
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Haart free
“Seven of 112 hemophiliacs infected with human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) before 1986 through contaminated plasma products are currently healthy, with CD4 T-cell counts above 500 cells/microL, and have never received antiretroviral therapy.”
Blood 1997 Jan 1;89(1):191-200
– Vicenzi E, Bagnarelli P, et al, Aids Researchers
"143 Sudden Deaths Did Not Stop Approval"..
(143 deaths represents MORE deaths then the total of 1999 mortalities in Cororado, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Washington, New Mexico, Northand South Dakota, Oklahoma, W. Virgina, NJ, Delaware and Alaska combined)
A damning and horrifying accounts of how the US Food and Drug Administration acts in anything but good faith or the public interest. A blistering seven-page expose that points a finger at AIDS activist efforts to speed up the approval process.
"Once a wary watchdog, the Food and Drug Administration set out to become a 'partner' of the pharmaceutical industry. Today, the public has more remedies, but some are proving lethal."
By DAVID WILLMAN, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON--For most of its history, the United Food and Drug Administration approved new prescription medicines at a grudging pace, daily homage to the physician's creed, "First, do no harm." Then in the early 1990s, the demand for AIDS drugs changed the political climate. Congress told the FDA to
work closely with pharmaceutical firms in getting new medicines to market more swiftly. President Clinton urged FDA leaders to trust industry as "partners, not adversaries..."
Choice headlines:
"Drug After Drug, Warnings Ignored...danger signs present...even so, top admistrators moved ahead often leaving doctors to assume the risks."
"Warning on Label Omits Deaths...heart problems were mentioned in fine print, not in key dosage data"
"143 Sudden Deaths Did Not Stop Approval...study results kept secret"
"Official Foresaw Deadly Effects..remedy pulled after of death and surgeries"
Find the whole article at
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/reports/fda/