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Club offers
latest drugs
for AIDS
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age the process individually.
About 60 experimental treatments
are available through the network.
But the arrangements are not
profit-making ventures, those in-
volved emphasize. "We are not
trying to make money on these
drugs," said Mr. Woodroof. "We have
a 17 percent gross markup or less. It
covers the basic product cost and
shipping."
While some local doctors are con-
cerned about potential health prob-
lems from treatments that have not
met U.S. standards, increasingly they
are accepting their patients' decision
to look beyond accepted therapies
for a disease that has no cure.
"It's a reality of my practice and
I'd be a fool not to expect it," said Dr.
Stephen Nightingale, director of the
AIDS clinic at Parkland Memorial
Hospital. "But in the past year I have
not seen any patient who was physi-
cally damaged by any remedy they
were taking."
Last month, however, the FDA is-
sued a warning to AIDS patients who
were drinking a diluted solution of
hydrogen peroxide in the belief that
it would somehow stop the spread of
the human immunodeficiency virus,
or HIV, which causes AIDS. In the
past year, a Conroe child died and
several others were severely injured
when they were mistakenly served
high concentrations of the liquid. A
mother of one child had mistaken
the drink for chilled water stored in
the refrigerator.
The FDA warning has not
deterred Mr. Woodroof from contin-
uing to offer the drug. He said he
knows of 17 patients locally who are
using the potion and seeing positive
results.Wednesday, May 17, 1989
The Doallas MorningNew Wllhom Snyder
Ron Woodroof, president of the Dallas Buyers Club, operates
a distribution centers for experimental AIDS treatments. The
non-profit organization imports treatments from other coun-
tries, none of which has FDA approval."We're not going to stop handling
it as long as someone who is HIV-pos-
itive wants it," he said i'he wholepoint of this is to give people options.
If they see results, then that's all that
matter
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