Merck & Co's drug cuts HIV across sub-groups

16 February 2009

A new subgroup analyses of the Phase III STARTMRK study found that US drug major Merck & Co's recently-approved Isentress (raltegravir) to be  as effective as efavirenz at suppressing viral load and to provide  improvements in immune system function across a broad spectrum of  patient subpopulations through 48 weeks. These data were presented at  the 16th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, held  in Montreal, Canada.

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