Study highlights risky behavior, lack of care among HIV-infected crack users August 04, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Doctors who treat HIV-infected crack users refer to them as "the forgotten population." A study being presented at this week's International AIDS Conference in Mexico City reveals that these patients frequently lack outpatient ... | |
Long-term HIV treatment may reduce risk for atherosclerosis August 04, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Antiretroviral drugs for HIV do not increase the risk for coronary atherosclerosis, a central risk factor for heart disease, according to a study led by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health to be ... | |
Highly active antiretroviral therapy of similar benefit for HIV-infected injection drug users August 03, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Contrary to the belief that HIV-infected injection drug users (IDUs) receive less benefit from highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), new research finds little difference in the survival rate between IDUs and non-IDUs ... | |
Growth hormone reduces abdominal fat, cardiovascular risk in HIV patients on antiviral therapy August 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Low-dose growth hormone treatment reduced abdominal fat deposits and improved blood pressure and triglyceride levels in a group of patients with HIV lipodystrophy, a condition involving the redistribution of fat and other ... | |
Higher HIV infection estimate shows need for routine screening, more funding for care August 01, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Arlington, VA—The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is expected soon to increase the estimate of new HIV infections in the United States by 40 percent. This highlights the need to make HIV testing a routine ... | |
New male circumcision device for HIV prevention studied by NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell August 01, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
With the recent endorsement by the World Health Organization (WHO) and scientists worldwide of adult male circumcision as an important strategy for HIV prevention, there is increased urgency to develop safe and cost-effective ... | |
How 'hidden mutations' contribute to HIV drug resistance July 31, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
One of the major reasons that treatment for HIV/AIDS often doesn't work as well as it should is resistance to the drugs involved. Now, scientists at McGill University have revealed how mutations hidden in previously ignored ... | |
Common vaginal infection may increase risk of HIV infection July 31, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A common vaginal infection may make women more susceptible to contracting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health researchers have found. | |
Deportation linked to higher risk of HIV infection in male injection drug users July 30, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Male injection drug users deported from the United States to Tijuana have four-fold higher odds of HIV infection compared to those living in Tijuana who were not deported there, according to a study to be presented at the ... | |
New therapy for HIV treatment July 29, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Millions of people world-wide who have contracted a highly resistant strain of the HIV virus could benefit from a new drug to treat the infection. | |
A dangerous precedent in HIV July 29, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Infection with HIV could quadruple in certain populations if people with HIV follow potentially misleading advice contained in a statement from the Swiss Federal Commission for HIV/AIDS, University of New South Wales (UNSW) ... | |
Sensitive testing reveals drug-resistant HIV with possible consequences for treatment July 29, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Drug-resistant HIV at levels too low to be detected by standard tests is not unusual and may contribute to treatment failure, according to research published in PLoS Medicine. | |
 Anti-HIV therapy boosts life expectancy more than 13 years July 25, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The life expectancy for patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has increased by more than 13 years since the late 1990s thanks to advancements in antiretroviral therapy, according to researchers ... | |
Researchers disprove long-standing belief about HIV treatment July 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have disproved a long-standing clinical belief that the hepatitis C virus slows or stunts the immune system's ability to restore itself after HIV patients are treated ... | |
Mindfulness meditation slows progression of HIV, study shows July 24, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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CD4+ T lymphocytes, or simply CD4 T cells, are the "brains" of the immune system, coordinating its activity when the body comes under attack. They are also the cells that are attacked by HIV, the devastating virus that causes ... | |
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