News tagged with combination antiretroviral therapy
Study finds nontuberculous mycobacteria lung disease on the rise in the United States
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are environmental organisms found in both water and soil that can cause severe pulmonary (lung) disease in humans. Pulmonary NTM is on the rise in the United States, according to a large ...
Has HIV become more virulent?
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Apr 07, 2009 |
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Damage to patients' immune systems is happening sooner now than it did at the beginning of the HIV epidemic, suggesting the virus has become more virulent, according to a new study in the May 1, 2009 issue of Clinical In ...
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Combination antiretroviral therapy effective at reducing HIV resistance in mothers and babies
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Oct 27, 2009 |
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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 ...
Study shows that HIV antiretroviral treatment should start earlier
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Apr 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new analysis of more than 45,000 people with HIV in Europe and North America suggests that the minimum CD4-cell count threshold for initiation of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) ...
Long-term HIV treatment may reduce risk for atherosclerosis
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Aug 04, 2008 |
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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 ...
Nurses in Africa know when to start antiretroviral treatment
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Aug 19, 2009 |
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Nurses and clinical officers (non-physician clinicians, NPCs) are capable of determining when a person should receive antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV/AIDS. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal ...
Anti-HIV therapy boosts life expectancy more than 13 years
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Jul 25, 2008 |
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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' new goal: Drug-free remission for HIV infection
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Mar 05, 2009 |
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A group including leading academic and industry scientists has issued a challenge to researchers in the field of HIV/AIDS: find a way to effectively purge latent HIV infection and eliminate the need for chronic, suppressive ...
HIV integrase inhibitor effective for patients beginning antiretroviral treatment
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Aug 03, 2009 |
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A member of a new class of antiretroviral drugs is safe and effective for patients beginning treatment against HIV, according to researchers who have completed a two-year multisite phase III clinical trial comparing it with ...
New combination therapy looks promising against ulcer bacteria
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Results of a new study reveal that a seven-day course of LOAD therapy is superior to LAC at eliminating the H. pylori bacterium in patients with gastritis and peptic ulcers.
New therapy for HIV treatment
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Jul 29, 2008 |
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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.
Adherence to antiretroviral therapy high in children in low income countries
Aug 11, 2008 |
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Researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine, the Regenstrief Institute and Moi University School of Medicine are the first to report that adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) to fight human immunodeficiency ...
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