Word: windom
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Dates: during 1986-1986
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...This is not a cure. We don't want to overpromise to the thousands of people who have AIDS." Robert Windom, of the Department of Health and Human Services, chose his words carefully as he faced the press in Washington last ! week, determined not to raise any false hopes. Despite Windom's caution, the dramatic news he reported was bound to be en couraging to AIDS victims around the world: early results of clinical tests with an experimental drug called azidothymidine (AZT) had shown that it slowed the attack of the AIDS virus and seemed to prolong the lives...
...results were so remarkable, Windom said, that tests in a dozen medical centers were being halted so that control groups of AIDS sufferers -- who had been receiving only placebos, or dummy drugs -- could immediately begin treatment with AZT. Furthermore, Windom has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration for speedy approval to distribute the drug to thousands of other AIDS victims, but only those who have also suffered from Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), a rare form of pneumonia that frequently afflicts AIDS patients. David Barry, vice president for research at Burroughs Wellcome, the pharmaceutical firm that produces the drug, stressed...