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Once-a-day pill falls short

Advocate, The,  Oct 11, 2005  

People with HIV have long waited for a once-a-day pill to treat the disease, and it looked like they might finally get it this year. That was until pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences announced in August that a second attempt to combine its combination anti-HIV medication Truvada with Bristol-Myers Squibb's Sustiva had failed.

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The latest formulation of the drugs did not achieve the same bioequivalency as individual doses of the medications, Gilead officials said. The two companies are now considering new approaches and hope to file for Food and Drug Administration approval in the first half of 2006.

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