'Emergency plan' to beat polio
Polio has been declared a global emergency by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative after explosive outbreaks in countries previously free of the disease. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
HIV combination products
Authors: Lisette Oversteegen, Mansi Shah
Holger Rovini
Three years after the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in 1984, GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK's) Retrovir (zidovudine) became the first drug to be approved for the treatment of this disease (Fig. 1). It belongs to the class of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), (Source: Nature Reviews Drug Discovery)
