New protease inhibitor held HIV at undetectable levels for four years
...timicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. "Maintaining antiviral suppression to undetectable levels over the long term is crucial to patients' success," Murphy said. "Drugs such as Kaletra, which have demonstrated high rates of viral suppression over several years, remain important options for initial therapy. V...New avenue of HIV damage found
... accumulation of scar tissue might enhance current antiviral therapy."...Researchers identify less expensive HIV progression test as effective as current tests in use
...ently used to determine when patients should start antiviral drug therapy to prevent AIDS. The study, "Heat-Denatured Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Protein 24 Antigen: Prognostic Value in Adults with Early-Stage Disease," appears in the Oct. 15 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases. Timothy R. Ster...Interferons for treatment of SARS?
...ntial for the treatment of SARS-CoV infection, the antiviral ribavirin (a conventional treatment for SARS) is ...dical School, Germany, and colleagues assessed the antiviral potential of recombinant interferons against two strains of the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) analysed...JCI table of contents, 1 August 2003
...develop suitable therapies for HDV. TITLE: In vivo antiviral efficacy of prenylation inhibitors against hepatitis delta virus AUTHOR CONTACT: Jeffrey Glenn Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA. Phone: 650-725-3373 Fax: 650-723-5488 E-mail: jeffrey.glenn@stanford.edu View the P...Infections linked to mental decline in elderly
...ere are existing therapies such as vaccination and antiviral drugs that could be used to prevent or treat dementia." HSV1 causes cold sores and HSV2 is a sexually transmitted disease. CMV infects between 50 percent and 85 percent of U.S. adults by age 40, but it causes few symptoms and no long term health con...Most resistance to Anti-HIV drugs created by good pill-taking patients
...epidemiology and medicine. "You need pressure from antiviral medications for resistance to develop. What is sur...o avoid creating resistance. Good adherence to the antiviral regimens still is the best bet to prevent becoming ill or dying with HIV/AIDS. Many patients with ex...Treating older adults for flu is cost-effective, but preventing it with a yearly flu shot is better
... anti-flu drugs cost significantly more than older antiviral therapy but combat both influenza A and influenza ... 65, influenza is so dangerous that treatment with antiviral drugs is very cost-effective, even when the doctor isn't sure of the diagnosis." Rothberg cautions t...Stanford researchers study new antiviral approach to protect women from HIV
...in the body can be genetically enhanced for potent antiviral activity. Modifications to this unique approach co...the trapped virus would additionally be exposed to antiviral compounds that lactobacillus normally produces, such as lactic acid and hydrogen peroxide. Enhancing...Nevirapine sustains advantage over AZT during breastfeeding period
...ants who received a single dose of the inexpensive antiviral drug nevirapine (NVP) soon after birth--and whose mothers took one dose of the same drug during labor--were 41 percent less likely to acquire HIV at birth or during breastfeeding than infants in infant/mother pairs who were treated with a multi-dose ...HIV researcher at Rush awarded grant from Doris Duke Foundation
...t falls under 200, which is when the patient needs antiviral therapy. For this study, Landay's team has selected Bali, a country off the coast of Australia. Many countries like Bali do not have the infrastructure to support more sophisticated HIV and CD4 cell counting technology -- the gold standard for such ...Duke to lead first comparative trial of hepatitis C therapies
...tion of interferon and ribavirin. Interferon is an antiviral drug used to suppress and eradicate the hepatitis C virus. Ribavirin, also an antiviral treatment, is used in combination with interferon to enhance response rates. Ribavirin alone has not...New weapon may help flush stealth stashes of HIV in cells
... Peptides, this is the first human study to assess antiviral and immune effects of the experimental therapy, ca...dded immune response in the form of an increase in antiviral T cells that fight against HIV. The people who fared best took HAART and Peptide T simultaneously. ...Antiretroviral therapy after birth decreases mother-to-child HIV transmission
...forded additional protection by receiving a second antiviral drug. With these new, promising results, we believe that alternative drugs may also be used as safety data become available. These regimens could also be extended to prevent transmission of HIV through breast milk." Newton I. Kumwenda and Amanda Gibb...Study finds subtle brain damage in some HIV patients on drug therapy
...ne. But the take-home message of our study is that antiviral medications might not be stopping brain damage. When we put patients' brains under closer scrutiny, we saw that they were affected." "The results of our study raise the concern of brain injury in HIV subjects who are on treatment, even among those wh...OHSU researchers study recent monkeypox outbreak
...owever, may provide evidence of whether protective antiviral immunity was maintained since childhood. In their current study, Slifka and his colleagues are tracking monkeypox exposure in people previously vaccinated for smallpox and comparing their disease symptoms with people who were not previously vaccinate...U.S. is poorly prepared for influenza pandemic, St. Jude experts warn
...espond to an outbreak with vaccines, the supply of antiviral drugs that might slow a pandemic is in "scandalous... the face of a pandemic, the available supplies of antiviral drugs would be used up in days," Webster said. "It would take up to 18 months to make more drugs fro...One combination of AIDS drugs appears better for starting treatment
...d live with for many years. Combinations of three antiviral drugs could keep the virus in check for a while, and when one treatment regimen failed to suppress the virus or became too toxic, switching to a different combination often renewed effective viral control. The current studies are the largest and most...Antiviral drug, valacyclovir, reduces genital herpes transmission
...nds that taking a single daily dose of an approved antiviral drug known as valacyclovir can reduce the transmis... viruses. "This is the first demonstration that an antiviral drug can prevent a viral sexually transmitted disease," said Corey, also a professor of laboratory m...... family member with influenza was treated with the antiviral drug oseltamivir, post-exposure oseltamivir prophy...nt virus, which had been a problem with some other antiviral drugs, the M2 protein inhibitors amantadine and rimantadine, when used for treatment and prophylaxis...