Talk:Lamivudine/zidovudine

message: Hi there.  I teach university economics, and use the antiretroviral drug Combivir (which redirects here) as one of my examples for students to look at when we study market power and monopoly.
For a pharmaceutical drug that is as important to human health ( in the treatment of HIV/AIDS) as this formulation has been over the past 20 years, I am amazed that there is not a more comprehensive article about it, including the History of the drug (when it was developed, by whom, for what purposes, clinical trials,  etc.) and the Economics (including how it is sold/marketed under a variety of names, how and when it was patented (I think mid-1990s), eventually approved for use in the US (1997) and other countries (???), how it came to be sold at very high prices in the developed world and very low prices in the undeveloped world, when does the patent expire, etc.)
The impression I get from looking at the article is that since it is a medical-related topic, there may be some special Wikipedia rulz that have scrubbed the article of much of the stuff that would ordinarily provide encyclopedic content.  I just can't imagine that there is not more here with this article?  Am I looking in the wrong places?  Where on wiki is this story told?  Heck, we have far more history on many garage bands than we do this life-saving drug combo.  Cheers, N2e (talk) 12:41, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  On the History, and the Economics, of this important drug 

message: University of California, San Francisco/Words as Power - Expanding WikiProject Pharmacology (Fall 2016)
Group 14
Wikipedia editing plan for Lamivudine/zidovudine
Parts of the page our group members are working to improve: 
* Editing the existing introduction
Sections to add into the wiki page:
* Medical Uses/Indications
* Side Effects
* Interactions (drugs, food, OTC, herbals/supplements)
* Pharmacology
* Mechanism of Action
* Pharmacokinetics/Pharmcodynamics
* History
* Drug Formulations
* Society/Culture
We plan to systematically search for clinically relevant and peer reviewed studies and articles that pertain to Lamivudine/ziovudine through systematic searches on PubMed, EMBASE, GoogleScholar etc. After find the articles, we will determine if the articles meet criteria and contain evidence based information that can be cited to update the drug information for this page. 
Goals of our group edits and focus and guidance for peer reviewer group
* Update the Wikipedia page with information that is clinically correct and evidenced based
* Clearly articulate drug terminology and medical concepts into terms that is understandable to the general Wikipedia user audience
Dinhtt (talk) 01:53, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Group 14: Page Editing Plan (University of California, San Francisco/Words as Power - Expanding WikiProject Pharmacology, Fall 2016) 

message: Are the points included verifiable with cited secondary sources that are freely accessible? If not, specify…
The points are verifiable with cited secondary sources. This group did a great job in determining which terms required more explanation by linking to the terms' respective wikipedia pages. This was not done in excess which saves the audience from constantly switching pages. One thing I would note is that reference #1 is not completed. Overall, regarding the references and secondary sources, this group did a great job in finding reliable and diverse sources. Felicewu595 (talk) 20:45, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Group 15- Review 

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