Word: regimen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...through to keep the disease in check. Patients on combination therapy often have to swallow 20 to 50 pills a day. Since some of the drugs have to be taken on an empty stomach and others with food, it can be difficult to stick to the prescribed regimen. Yet if patients skip even a single dose, the small amounts of HIV that remain in their bodies can become resistant and spread anew. Most suffer side effects in the first few months that include severe diarrhea, muscle spasms and anemia...
...other weight-loss schemes in an effort to shed the extra 100 lbs. she carried on her 5-ft. 9-in. frame. But the weight had always been hard to take off and had always come back. This time seemed different. In her first two months on her new regimen, Dorsett had dropped 40 lbs., and she swore she would lose 60 more by the end of the year. If she was going to fall off the wagon, though, it would probably be here, at one of her favorite restaurants. But try as she might, Dorsett couldn't even finish...
...months ago, Brudnoy began the new drug "cocktail" regimen involving the use of three different drugs...
...band played on the very first Warped tour (an annual skateboarding/ska/punk traveling music festival) and became the very first act asked to leave the tour (for a week) because of unruly behavior. This group was too punk rock even for punks. Explains Gaugh: "Basically, our daily regimen was wake up, drink, drink more, play, and then drink a lot more. We'd call people names. Nobody got our sense of humor. Then we brought the dog out and he bit a few skaters, and that was the last straw...
...medications can interact with one another to cause side effects. Even by themselves they can cause severe diarrhea, abdominal cramps or anemia. Some of the drugs have to be taken on an empty stomach, others on a full stomach, so it can be hard to stick to a regimen. Yet if patients skip even a single dose of any one drug, the HIV could press this small advantage to mutate into a strain that resists all current medicines. Nor is everyone so sure that a cure is in sight. "Virologists have started using that word," says Dr. Donald Abrams...