On Thursday, a panel of outside experts that advises the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voted to support approval of the daily pill Truvada to prevent HIV in healthy people. The FDA is not obliged to follow the advice of its Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee, but should it do so, then Gilead Sciences Inc's Truvada will be the first drug indicated for reducing the risk of uninfected individuals acquiring the AIDS virus...

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