The Nation - News from Sept. 26, 1986
More than 7,300 AIDS victims and their doctors inundated a national hot line during its first six days in hopes of getting permission to use a promising new drug called azidothymidine, or AZT, officials at the National Institutes of Health said. The hot line was set up last Friday after federal health officials announced that AZT would be made widely available. It had shown dramatic results in a six-month controlled study of 146 patients suffering from AIDS.
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