TITLE

PHS proposes `parallel track' for new AIDS drugs

PUB. DATE
September 1990
SOURCE
Public Health Reports;Sep/Oct90, Vol. 105 Issue 5, p541
SOURCE TYPE
Academic Journal
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Reports on the US Public Health Service's (PHS) proposal for speeding the availability of investigational new drugs for AIDS and HIV-related diseases by means of a parallel track mechanism. Selection of patients with life-threatening illnesses including AIDS; Views on the safeguards to parallel track; Deadline for public comments.
ACCESSION #
9608042153

Tags: HIV infections -- Treatment;  AIDS (Disease) -- Treatment

 

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