AZT
noun
: an antiviral drug C10H13N5O4 that inhibits replication of some retroviruses (such as HIV) and is used to treat AIDS
called also azidothymidine, zidovudine
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In 1987, the US Food & Drug Administration approved the first antiretroviral medication to prevent or treat HIV/AIDS: AZT, or azidothymidine, and Flournoy eventually started taking it.
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Cathie Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 28 July 2024
Members infiltrated the New York Stock Exchange and chained themselves to a balcony to protest the high price of AZT, the only treatment for AIDS at the time.
—Sally Tamarkin, Them, 28 June 2024
Aztec's shares trade on the TSX-V stock exchange (symbol AZT) and on the OTCQB (symbol AZZTF).
—Sacramento Bee, 24 June 2024
At the end of the study, 19 patients who received the placebo had died compared with only 1 death in the group that received AZT.
—Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
Under the care of her adoptive parents, Loren and Pat Broadbent, Ms. Broadbent was among the first pediatric patients to receive AZT and other antiretroviral drugs for the treatment of HIV/AIDS.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2024
The Treatment When the Long Beach baby was born, doctors immediately took blood tests to screen for HIV and administered high doses of AZT, 3TC and nevirapine — the typical treatment for an HIV infection.
—Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2014
The first drug, AZT, found immediate application for health care workers who accidentally had a needlestick injury that infected them with contaminated blood.
—William A. Haseltine, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2020
Though only moderately effective, AZT paved the way for later generations of life-saving antiretroviral therapy.
—Patrick Adams, National Geographic, 31 Aug. 2020
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Cathie Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 28 July 2024
Members infiltrated the New York Stock Exchange and chained themselves to a balcony to protest the high price of AZT, the only treatment for AIDS at the time.
—Sally Tamarkin, Them, 28 June 2024
Aztec's shares trade on the TSX-V stock exchange (symbol AZT) and on the OTCQB (symbol AZZTF).
—Sacramento Bee, 24 June 2024
At the end of the study, 19 patients who received the placebo had died compared with only 1 death in the group that received AZT.
—Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
Under the care of her adoptive parents, Loren and Pat Broadbent, Ms. Broadbent was among the first pediatric patients to receive AZT and other antiretroviral drugs for the treatment of HIV/AIDS.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2024
The Treatment When the Long Beach baby was born, doctors immediately took blood tests to screen for HIV and administered high doses of AZT, 3TC and nevirapine — the typical treatment for an HIV infection.
—Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2014
The first drug, AZT, found immediate application for health care workers who accidentally had a needlestick injury that infected them with contaminated blood.
—William A. Haseltine, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2020
Though only moderately effective, AZT paved the way for later generations of life-saving antiretroviral therapy.
—Patrick Adams, National Geographic, 31 Aug. 2020
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AZT
noun
: a drug used to treat AIDS
Medical Definition
AZT
noun
: an antiviral drug C10H13N5O4 that inhibits replication of some retroviruses (as HIV) and is used to treat AIDS
called also azidothymidine, ZDV, zidovudine
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