HIV/AIDS

UPDATE: FDA Approves ISENTRESS(TM) (raltegravir) Tablets, First-in-Class Oral HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitor

Published in AIDS Weekly, October 29th, 2007

Merck & Co., Inc., announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted ISENTRESS(TM) (raltegravir) tablets accelerated approval for use in combination with other antiretroviral agents for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in treatment-experienced adult patients who have evidence of viral replication and HIV-1 strains resistant to multiple antiretroviral agents.

This indication is based on analyses of plasma HIV-1 RNA levels up through 24 weeks in two controlled studies of ISENTRESS (pronounced i-sen-tris). These studies were conducted in clinically advanced, three-class antiretroviral (nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), non-nucleoside...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2007-10-29)

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