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Doctors in the U.S. have known since 1994 that the drug AZT can substantially reduce the chance of transmission of the AIDS virus from an infected woman to her newborn child. Unfortunately, administering AZT to pregnant women is complicated and quite expensive--about $1,000 per mother. That's far beyond the means of most developing countries, where 1,000 newborns are infected each...
...were given short treatments with AZT and some, for the purpose of comparison, received a placebo. It is the inclusion of these placebo groups that the critics find objectionable. Giving a sugar pill to an AIDS patient is considered ethically unacceptable in the U.S. To give one to a pregnant African, Dr. Angell writes, shows a "callous disregard of [a patient's] welfare for the sake of research goals...
...replace Roberts this month. Though criticized in some quarters as having too similar a background to Lelyveld (and causing a stir internally because of his messy personal life: around the time of the promotion he had left his wife and adopted son for a British journalist who was pregnant with his child), Keller has received a good initial reception in the newsroom. His chief competition to succeed Lelyveld when he retires in five years is Raines, 54. A gregarious Southerner who has brought new punch to the paper's often bland editorial page, Raines could bring some welcome flair...
...market involves several studies in developing countries funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These large clinical trials involve 12,211 women in seven countries and test the effectiveness of several treatments of AZT in preventing transmission of HIV from a pregnant mother to her fetus...
...still be harbored in higher concentrations in lymph nodes, where it is equally if not more dangerous to the body's immune system. Already, drug-resistant strains have appeared. A recent study from the National Cancer Institute even shows that AZT causes cancer in the offspring of pregnant mice treated with...