AIDS Treatments Seek To Eradicate Virus, Restore Immunity
...he most aggressive oftherapies, which has not been available before now," said oncologistDr. Clay Smith. Smith said he hopes not only to save these patients, but to answer somefundamental questions about the viability of bone marrow transplantationin AIDS therapy. The team plans to treat abo...DNA Imaging to Design Better Drugs
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... to 1954. The AIDS care program initially will be available through PriorityPartners, which is Hopkins' Medicaid Managed Care Organization, and ChesapeakeFamily First, United Healthcare of the Mid-Atlantic's medical assistanceprogram. "Moore Options is a dramatically new concept in capitation, but it makess...ACTG Protocol 185 Enrollment Halted
..., and one or more diagnostic HIV test results were available in 379 infants. The estimated overall rate of mother-to-infant HIV transmission was an unexpectedly low 4.8%, and did not differ between HIVIG and IVIG recipients (4.7% versus 4.8%, respectively). The transmission rates were well below the anticipat...UNC-CH Study Shows State Protects HMO Clients Poorly
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... Until recently, lithium was the best medication available for thedisease, but because of undesirable side effects many people discontinueits use. In the past few years, an anticonvulsant drug prescribed forepilepsy, called valproate, was also found to be effective. Cliniciansdiscovered that best results oft...New Drug For Parkinson's Disease Proves Effective, Study Finds
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...linical trials, and is unlikely to be commercially available before theend of the decade. Dr Belford is now in the process of negotiating a clinical trial in Adelaidefor the extracted whey powder. As part of the trial, the scientists planto test whether the whey extract will speed the healing of patients with...TB Prophylaxis Unnecessary In HIV-Infected People With Anergy, Study Suggests
...derived proteins below theskin, is the only method available for diagnosing inactive, or latent, TBinfection. Palpable swelling at the site of injection occurs in mostTB-infected people with healthy immune systems. However, HIV-infected peoplewith suppressed immune systems often exhibit anergy, a reduced or ...Condemnation May Be Driving Circumcised Women From Health Care
... relative dearth ofpractical, clinical information available to providers" on how they should treatcircumcised women. More than 30,000 Africans entered the U.S. during the last decade, 93percent of them refugees from Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia, where more than 80percent of the women are circumcised....Studies Find Public Policies For Children And Teenagers Not Very Effective
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...journals would risk limiting their pool of experts available todebate medical issues if they were to exclude the publication of articles byphysicians with financial relationships with manufacturers," Detsky explains."Physicians and researchers simply need to disclose their financialrelationships." De...Medicare Approves UM Medical Center For Lung Transplants
...all of the advancedmedical and surgical treatments available for patients with advanced lungdisease, including transplantation, lung volume reduction surgery for emphysemaand therapies for pulmonary hypertension....Penn Researchers Initiate Ground-Breaking New Trials To Treat
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