Word: hiv
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old Bostonian knew he was taking a chance when he visited a bathhouse for a homosexual tryst. It wasn't until the condom broke and he saw the blood that he blanched. Had he picked up HIV, the virus that causes AIDS? The next morning, he called his physician, Dr. Stephen Boswell of the Fenway Community Health Center, in a panic. Could the doctor please do something to help...
...happened, Dr. Boswell thought maybe he could. It wouldn't be easy, he explained, and there was no guarantee of success. The treatment he offered--an intense chemical barrage with the same combination of powerful anti-HIV drugs that has given so many patients with advanced AIDS a new lease on life--would last six weeks and make the man very sick. But if it worked, the potent cocktail could destroy any viral particles that might have been transmitted and prevent a potentially fatal infection from taking hold...
...fact that morning-after treatments are being discussed at all shows just how far HIV drug therapy has come in the past two years. There is still no cure for AIDS, but doctors have watched with growing excitement as the new therapies forced the level of HIV in the blood of some of their most advanced AIDS patients below their ability to detect it. HIV still lurks in these patients' lymph nodes, nervous system and other parts of the body. But some scientists believe that if the virus is caught early enough in the cycle of infection, it may some...
Physicians have already scored some successes in hospitals where health-care workers have been accidentally jabbed by needles containing HIV-contaminated blood. By starting combination therapy immediately after exposure, and continuing treatment for a month and a half, they have been able to cut the risk of infection due to needle-stick injuries from as much...
...long way, as it has for Peter Johnson, president and CEO of Agouron Pharmaceuticals in La Jolla, Calif. Earlier this year the FDA, using a streamlined process specifically developed for life-threatening diseases like AIDS, gave a green light to Viracept, the firm's new anti-HIV drug...