News tagged with combination treatments

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

created Feb 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Animal TB 'tracker' to speed drug and vaccine studies

Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a novel way to monitor in real time the behavior of the TB bacterium in mouse lungs noninvasively pinpointing the exact location of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tools for more accurate dosage of drugs against HIV/AIDS and malaria

A doctoral thesis presented at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that it is possible to describe and quantify the relationships between dose, concentration and effectiveness of several drugs ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0