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People living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) are known to be at high risk of blood clots when admitted to hospital during a flare-up of their disease but now new research by scientists at The University of Nottingham has shown that those who are not admitted to hospital during flare-ups are also at risk.
A new study conducted in a multi-country HIV treatment program in sub-Saharan Africa has found that pregnancy rates increase in HIV-infected women after they start antiretroviral therapy.
Clinical trial results mark 'significant milestone,' expert says.
I recently went to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Mt Hope Hospital to visit a friend and I became somewhat geographically disoriented. I was first greeted by a Nigerian doctor, then a Filipino nurse, a Cuban doctor, and later an Indian physician.
Very small amounts of transmitted drug resistance can increase the risk of efavirenz treatment failure, US investigators report in the March 1 st edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases (now online).
Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis is most likely emerging as a result of delays in diagnosis, sub-optimal treatment and poor infection control, not failures in patient adherence, a newly published study of XDR TB cases in a South African gold mine suggests.
TUESDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) -- A new vaccine prevents tuberculosis in people with HIV, a new study shows.
Unhappy fact about Aids in Africa. A lot of women are exposed to HIV by philandering husbands and can't do a thing about protecting themselves. The men won't wear condoms. In fact, the women don't even dare ask them to. So there's been huge enthusiasm for the idea of a microbicide - a virus-killing gel women could use before sex. Women especially - like Claire Short, when she was Britain's ...
Gilead Sciences Inc., the world’s biggest maker of AIDS medicines, will begin three final-stage tests in 2010 for a four-drug combination pill against HIV that has the potential to generate $4 billion a year.
It may be possible to develop a preventative program targeting all AIDS risk groups, researchers say after testing pre-exposure drug treatments on mice with humanlike immune systems. The announcement by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine of a successful trial of pre-exposure use of antiretroviral drugs in mice with "humanized" immunity comes on the ...
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