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The peer education and skills training program at AIDS Service Center (ASC) in New York, NY, has helped to change the lives of many people living with HIV infection.
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Patients enrolled in the Swiss HIV cohort study, initiating their first cART regimen between 1996 and early 2007, who had baseline and follow up CD4+ count and HIV RNA data available, were included in the analysis.
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The AIDS Drug Assistances Protocol Fund Medical Advisory Committee's Recommendations for State ADAP Waiting List Guidelines, revised in September, 2004, suggest these prioritization strategies for clients who are on waiting lists to receive AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) drugs to treat their HIV disease:
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In a case that recalls the national hue and cry of the Florida HIV dental outbreak in the early 1990s, investigators have determined that HIV provider-to-patient infections remain exceedingly rare.
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On Dec. 30, 2008, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first nucleic acid test (NAT) that screens for the presence of two divergent types of HIV in donated blood plasma and human tissue.
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Most deaths due to overdose in West Virginia involved men who took opioids that were not prescribed for them.
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Older men with early stage prostate cancer had survival similar to those without cancer; for two-thirds of these men, cardiovascular diseases and other cancers were more likely to cause death than prostate cancer.
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The FDA has approved a new muscarinic receptor antagonist for the treatment of overactive bladder.
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The lead II rhythm strip shown above was obtained from an elderly patient with shortness of breath. How wide is the QRS complex?
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