News tagged with antiretroviral therapies

defense molecules in mouth found to inhibit infections from HIV

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Jun 29, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

A professor from the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine has discovered defense molecules found in the mouth inhibit infections from HIV.

Long-term HIV treatment may reduce risk for atherosclerosis

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Aug 04, 2008 | not rated yet | 0

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 ...

Drug Therapy Reduces HIV Transmission in Couples Regardless of Condom Use or Safe-Sex Practices

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Feb 11, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Antiretroviral drug therapy in an HIV-positive man or women can alone help prevent the transmission of HIV to an uninfected partner, regardless of counseling, the patient’s use of condoms or other safe-sex ...

HIV persists in the gut despite long-term HIV therapy

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Feb 13, 2008 | 3.5 / 5 (4) | 0

Even with effective anti-HIV therapies, doctors still have not been able to eradicate the virus from infected individuals who are receiving such treatments, largely because of the persistence of HIV in hideouts known as viral ...

Efavirenz-based initial therapies associated with better outcomes in HIV-infected adults

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Oct 14, 2008 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

A study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that HIV-infected patients taking the antiretroviral drug efavirenz were more likely to adhere to treatment and less likely to experience ...

Combination antiretroviral therapy effective at reducing HIV resistance in mothers and babies

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Oct 27, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

In a clinical trial investigating mother-to-child HIV transmission in South Africa published this week in PLoS Medicine, Neil Martinson (of the Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Soweto, South Africa) and colleagues find that a ...

When HIV and liver disease co-exist

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Jun 01, 2007 | not rated yet | 0

[B]Hepatologists face new challenges as hepatitis progresses in HIV patients[/B] Since successful antiretroviral therapies have made HIV a treatable condition, more HIV patients who are also infected with hepatitis B or ...

Largest study compares cholesterol treatment in HIV patients and patients without HIV

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Mar 02, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

A new study in the online issue of Annals of Internal Medicine has found that cholesterol medications can work well among certain HIV patients at risk for cardiovascular disease.

Extraordinary immune cells may hold the key to managing HIV

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Dec 04, 2008 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

People who manage to control HIV on their own are providing scientists with valuable information about how the immune system eliminates virus-infected cells. A new study, published in the December 4th issue of Immunity, a Cell ...

AIDS patients with serious complications benefit from early retroviral use, study shows

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May 16, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

HIV-positive patients who don't seek medical attention until they have a serious AIDS-related condition can reduce their risk of death or other complications by half if they get antiretroviral treatment early on, according ...

IL-2 immunotherapy fails to benefit HIV-infected individuals already taking antiretrovirals

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Feb 10, 2009 | 2 / 5 (1) | 0

Providing a synthetic form of the immune system protein interleukin-2 (IL-2) to HIV-infected individuals already taking combination antiretroviral therapy boosts their numbers of CD4+ T cells, the key white blood cells destroyed ...

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