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HIV Drugs Show Promise in Treating Common Eye Disease

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A class of drugs used for three decades by people infected with the virus that causes AIDS may be effective in treating a leading cause of blindness among the elderly. HIV drugs called nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), including AZT and three others, blocked age-related macular degeneration in mice and worked well in experiments involving human retinal cells in the laboratory, researchers said Thursday. In HIV-infected people, NRTIs block an enzyme the virus uses to...

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