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By Neenyah Ostrom
New York Native 4 Sept. 1995

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  • Neenyah Ostrom

  • New York Native

  • AIDS Drugs

    • Zidovudine

    • AZT

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Zidovudine, or AZT, has had a rough year. Recent studies that have shown the drug to be ineffective at best and, in some instances, actually harmful. The worst news for AZT and its manufacturer Burroughs Wellcome, however, is probably yet to come, when the birth defects found in babies born to women treated with AZT while pregnant become common knowledge among patients, clinicians, and researchers-and the press.

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