FDA approves foot cream that kills HIV

 Weird Science

Researchers discovered that a foot cream used to treat nail fungus has an interesting side effect, namely eradicating HIV.

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School recently found that the drug Ciclopirox kills HIV in cell cultures and the virus doesn’t bounce back. So it may not be something that would require long-term treatment after it eradicates the virus.

The drug was approved by the FDA as safe for use, but now it will undergo tests to prepare human trials that might lead to a breakthrough in HIV treatment. The drug blocks the mitochondria in the virus and forces them to commit suicide, while leaving healthy cells untouched.

From Scientific American:

The researchers said that one aspect of HIV that makes it particularly persistent, even in the face of strong antiviral treatments, is its ability to disable a cell’s altruistic suicide pathway — which is typically activated when a cell is damaged or infected. In other words, infected cells that would normally commit suicide to spare healthy cells no longer pull any altruistic kamikaze missions. Ciclopirox tricks these cells back into their old ways with a double negative, disabling the disabling of the suicide pathway.

Scientists believe that the FDA approval process for treatment of HIV may be faster than normal. Many Americans see the FDA as an impediment to the advancement of potentially life saving treatments that are delayed because of the approval process. People such as former Congressman Ron Paul have argued that the institution should be abolished so as to allow the market to provide more efficient regulations. We’ve provided a video lecture about his reasoning on the topic below.

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