ANNOUNCEMENTS

New Directory of Clinical Research in the Bay Area

The Spring 1990 listing of AIDS/HIV clinical trials now recruiting patients in the San Francisco Bay Area is available from the Community Consortium (formerly called the County Commun ity Consortium) in San Francisco. To obtain a free copy, send your name and address to: Community Consortium, SFGH Building 80 Ward 84, San Francisco General Hospital, 995 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94110.

San Francisco: Cryptococcal Meningitis Study, SCH 39304

Persons who have had cryptococcal meningitis are needed to help test a new oral antifungal at San Francisco General Hospital. The study, conducted by Merle Sande, M. D. and Belle Lee, Pharm. D., and others in the Department of Medicine, lasts 12 months.

The drug, SCH 39304 from Schering Corporation, is now in phase III, and has been given to dozens of people, with only occasional minor side effects. Patients will be given 600 mg once a week for 12 months for suppression of cryptococcal meningitis. There are a total of 14 visits during the 12 months for blood drawing, and there will also be lumbar punctures on the second and 12th months.

To volunteer or to learn more about this study, call Dr. Belle Lee, at 415/821-8450.

NOTE: On December 15, AIDS TREATMENT NEWS carried a notice for a thrush study using SCH 39304, comparing 25 mg and 50 mg daily doses of the drug against 200 mg of ketoconazole, in a trial lasting only 10 days. The thrush study is still open.

New York: Cryptosporidiosis Studies of Diclazuril, Milk Globulin

Two trials of possible therapies for Cryptosporidium infections are now open to new participants at St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City. The treatments under investigation are diclazuril and bovine milk globulin, which were discussed with several other potential treatments for cryptosporidiosis in AIDS TREATMENT NEWS #95, January 19, 1990. Anyone interested in participating in one of these protocols should call Anita Tierney at 212/523-3671.


Help Wanted: Clinical Research Associate

The Project Inform Community Research Alliance is hiring a clinical research associate to initiate and monitor clinical stu- dies for its AIDS/HIV treatment research program. The work includes helping develop protocols and case-report forms, and monitoring a multi-center study to ensure adherence to protocol, drug accountability, accurate data collection, and compliance with regulations. Minimum two years experience in pharmaceutical industry or biomedical research; graduate degree in science desirable. Send resume and salary requirements to: PICRA, 347
Dolores St., Suite 202, San Francisco, CA 94110.

Next Issue in Three Weeks

Because AIDS TREATMENT NEWS is now published on the first and third Friday of every month, the next issue (#100) will be published in three weeks, on April 6.