IAS: Abacavir Link to Heart Disease Queried (CME/CE)

Courtesy MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Tue, 07/21/2009 - 10:41

CAPE TOWN (MedPage Today) -- The nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor abacavir (Ziagen) -- suspected of causing heart attacks -- may have gotten a bad rap, researchers said here.


 

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