Word: hiv
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...choose the same program, which can be tough to coordinate. So I recommend that you confine your e-mail messages to routine inquiries: appointment scheduling, follow-up questions after a checkup, requests for a prescription refill or a referral. Stanford University Medical Clinic forbids discussion of a patient's HIV status, mental illness or worker's compensation claims via e-mail--and for good reason...
...other experts, who took the position that Viagra is not, strictly speaking, a medical necessity. Then the committee calculated the cost of providing Viagra to Kaiser's members at $100 million a year, significantly dwarfing, for example, the HMO's $59 million budget for all its antiviral medications, including HIV drugs. Rather than increase premiums to cover the added costs, Kaiser decided to let its members pay for the potency pill out of their own pocket...
...only a matter of time before HIV found a way to thwart protease inhibitors, the key to combination therapy. Researchers reported the first case of transmission of a strain of the virus that is resistant to all four protease inhibitors. At the moment, combination therapy begun soon after hiv infection is the best hope for keeping HIV...
Scientists report evidence that the immune system of HIV-infected patients might take over where drug therapies leave off. In a study of 303 patients, the number of disease-fighting T cells increased during therapy in 80% of cases--suggesting that with treatment, an HIV-ravaged immune system could repair itself...
Researchers at the Centers For Disease Control announced last week that they have developed an experimental blood test that can distinguish between patients who have recently been infected with the AIDS virus--before the body has mounted a full antibody response--and those who have been HIV-positive for years. Why should anyone care? When you got infected can influence the kind of treatment you receive...