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...experts reported that for the first time since the mid-1990s, the number of HIV infections rose, by 1%. They believe some of the climb can be traced to the fact that more and more HIV patients are living longer, thanks to a potent combination of drugs that can control the virus. Unfortunately, if survivors fail to follow prevention guidelines, they may pass HIV along to others...
...therapies seem to increase the risk of heart attack 25%, at least in the first few years of treatment. In addition, studies showed that taking a break--or "drug holiday"--from the grueling pill-popping schedule does not improve the body's ability to overcome drug-resistant forms of HIV...
...community, infectious diseases quickly become political as well as medical crises. During the Middle Ages, the appearance of the plague in a European city was more likely to result in a pogrom against Jews, or burnings of suspected witches, than any rational public-health response. More recently, when HIV began its slow burn through the U.S., it was several years before then President Ronald Reagan even mentioned the disease publicly. The appearance of a probable new SARS case in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou late last month reminds us that the story of this disease's emergence...
Private companies may also be encouraged about their chances of developing a successful drug because protease inhibitors have thus far proven the best method to slow the progress of HIV infection, Cantley said...
Sometimes the biggest health advances can come in the form of tiny innovations. In Foster City, Calif., drug company Gilead has a very simple plan to tackle HIV: make the drugs easier to take. The firm gained headway two years ago when it introduced its Viread antiretroviral (HIV is a type of virus known as a retrovirus), which lasts longer than other similar medications and is more convenient for the user. In 2002 Gilead took in an incredible $226 million, almost half its annual revenue, from Viread...