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30 A-t l- $allagj ornintg eW Club offers latest drugs for AIDS Continued from Page 27A. 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 whole
point of this is to give people options. If they see results, then that's all that matter
