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...starting combination therapy, 7 out of 10 men and women with AIDS begin to get better. Blood tests show that in many of them, the viral load has dropped below detectable levels. Relieved of the burden of fighting HIV, their long-suffering immune systems can finally tackle the deadly fungal and bacterial infections that have taken hold in their lungs, intestines and brains. Fevers break; lesions disappear; energy returns...
...actually, make that 173 items on The List: Mom let me unpack the athletic supporter after we received the third edition of The List, which made distinctions between male and female items. Only on the day of my departure, when we made a mad dash to CVS for anti-fungal powder, did she sit back, relax a little and begin to let her daughter...
Linda Grinberg, 45, of Brentwood, California, was battling fungal infections, cytomegalovirus and exhaustion when doctors put her on a multidrug regimen against her HIV infection. "It's given me back my life," she says. "A year ago, it was difficult even to get dressed. I really felt I was at the end of the line...
...gene makes and 53 for the protein's molecular weight). Smokers who develop lung cancer, Harris has found, show tiny alterations in the p53 gene that differ from those in nonsmokers. They also vary from the changes found in Chinese liver-cancer patients. In the latter group, aflatoxin, a fungal contaminant of food, is the carcinogen, and it alters DNA in an exquisitely precise way, substituting in a single location a T (thymine) for a G (guanine) in DNA's four-letter chemical alphabet...
...More people are developing fungal infections while undergoing treatment for other conditions in the hospital. One of the chief culprits is the greater use of catheters, or tubes that penetrate the body and inadvertently allow fungal spores easy access to a patient's insides...