News tagged with combination antiretroviral therapy
Researchers target HIV-related brain difficulties
(PhysOrg.com) -- During the last two decades, scientists and doctors have developed a potent mix of medications that nearly stops HIV in its tracks for most patients. This combination antiretroviral therapy, or cART, can ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 07, 2010 |
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HIV drug resistance lasts about one year in women treated with nevirapine to prevent infant infection
A new international study reported in PLoS Medicine confirms that a single dose of nevirapine (sdNVP) can lead to HIV treatment failure in women who receive the drug to prevent transmission of the AIDS virus to their infant ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 16, 2010 |
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Study finds nontuberculous mycobacteria lung disease on the rise in the United States
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 ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Study shows that HIV antiretroviral treatment should start earlier
(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) ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Has HIV become more virulent?
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 ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Apr 07, 2009 |
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