FDA Talk Paper Isoprinosine Update
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Title
FDA Talk Paper Isoprinosine Update
Subject
Isoprionosine
HIV-positive persons
AIDS (Disease)
HIV (Viruses)
HIV/AIDS
Health care for LGBTQ+ people
Description
Food and Drug Administration Talk Paper by Bruce Brown, dated May 10, 1985 and entitled "Isoprionosine Update".
Page 1: Header reads: FDA Talk Paper. Addressed: Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland, 20857.
Discusses news media interest in the drug Isoprionosine made by Newport Pharmaceuticals, Newport Beach, California. Mentions that, "This month, FDA gave permission to Newport to initiate a compassionate-use protocol to give the drug to any physician for investigational use in individual patients with AIDS only." Notes that "Isoprinosine is not a cure for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), but is one of about half dozen drugs in or about to begin clinical trials in this country." Also notes that anyone interested in obtaining Isoprinosine does not need to leave the country.
Continued on page 2.
Page 1: Header reads: FDA Talk Paper. Addressed: Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland, 20857.
Discusses news media interest in the drug Isoprionosine made by Newport Pharmaceuticals, Newport Beach, California. Mentions that, "This month, FDA gave permission to Newport to initiate a compassionate-use protocol to give the drug to any physician for investigational use in individual patients with AIDS only." Notes that "Isoprinosine is not a cure for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), but is one of about half dozen drugs in or about to begin clinical trials in this country." Also notes that anyone interested in obtaining Isoprinosine does not need to leave the country.
Continued on page 2.
Creator
Food and Drug Administration
Source
Arthur Leahy Collection
Date
1985-05-10
Rights
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Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Type
articles (documents)
Identifier
2017.21.5.1.559
Coverage
1985
Maryland
United States of America
Citation
Food and Drug Administration, “FDA Talk Paper Isoprinosine Update,” Cork LGBT Archive, accessed May 9, 2024, https://corklgbtarchive.com/items/show/873.