HIV testing should be routine part of primary health care for sexually active
...ary health care providers should incorporate human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing into routine patient care for all sexually active individuals, regardless of risk factors, say a group of physician/researchers at Emory University School of Medicine, Brown Medical School, and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine...Patients newly diagnosed with HIV are more likely to enter outpatient care with case management
ATLANTA--Patients recently diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are significantly more likely to seek medical treatment if they are followed even briefly by a case manager, according to findings of the national Antiretroviral Treatment Access Study (ARTAS). Physician/researchers in Atlanta, Baltimore...Three-year cervical cancer screening recommendations may be applicable for certain women with HIV
Women with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) who have normal cervical cancer screening results and negative tests for human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted virus that is associated with cervical cancer, may be able to have Papanicolaou (Pap) smears every three years, th...Antiretroviral therapy may prevent excess risk of some cancers in people with HIV
In people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), highly active antiretroviral therapy ...Cancer Institute. Studies of people with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) have reported increased risks of several cancers, including Kaposi sarcoma, non-Hodg...HIV-1 spread through six transmission lines in the UK
...00 people in Britain have been infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 or HIV-1 since the first identification of AIDS in 1982. Despite a recent increase in heterosexually acquired infections within the UK, predominantly originating in sub-Saharan Africa, one of the most prevalent clades (subtypes) of viru...Emory Study finds HIV is not an independent risk factor for severe heart disease
ORLANDO -- Infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is no longer anautomatic death sentence, thanks to the use of highly active anti-retroviraltherapy (HAART). However, several studies questions have suggested that HIVinfection poses a serious threat to the heart -- specifically, that HIV ...Most episodes of HIV 'blips' not clinically significant in patients receiving HAART
Patients with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) who have been able to suppress the virus while receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) experience intermittent episodes of detectable viremia (presence of the HIV virus in the bloodstream), which are also known as ...HIV-infected parents report limiting physical contact with their children
...hives journals. Of adults receiving care for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the U.S., 28 percent have children younger than 18 years old, according to background information in the article. These children, although not infected themselves, may be greatly affected by the disease. Because HIV patients can both t...Potential cure for lymphoma in HIV patients
...the American Society of Hematology. Because of the immunodeficiency associated with HIV, HIV-positive Patients are more likely to develop lymphoma than HIV-negative individuals, and the treatment for their cancer is far less likely to be successful. Sonali Smith, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Universi...Risk of tuberculosis doubles in first year of HIV infection
...ncisco said that this research suggests a level of immunodeficiency in HIV infection that has not been readily appreciated. They speculated that the risk for developing tuberculosis may increase early in HIV infection because of profound immune dysregulation. Another possible explanation, they noted, is that those wh...American Thoracic Socety journal news tips for December 2004 (first issue)
...PAH). This illness is often associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. The new drug is an oral, dual endothelin receptor antagonist. In HIV, endothelin is believed to be produced excessively, causing vasoconstriction, cell proliferation, fibrosis, and inflammation. PAH results from chronic obst...Custom-built facial implants helpful for patients with HIV and facial wasting syndrome
...ith HIV to live longer and healthier lives. Human immunodeficiency virus is not the death sentence that it once was. As a result, many patients are seeking correction of the bony, emaciated appearance of facial wasting syndrome, which occurs in more than 50 percent of patients who receive HAART for longer than one ...NIH recognizes IU as leader in STD research
...ractions between these agents of STI and the human immunodeficiency virus research on how human papilloma virus causes cervical cancer The grant also helps fund the center's administrative, biostatistics, clinical and laboratory cores. The newly formed center represents the collaborative strength of infectious disea...OHSU vaccine and gene therapy institute receives $3.5 million for AIDS vaccine research
...p new methods for vaccinating humans against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS. Louis Picker, M.D., associate director of the VGTI and director of the institute's vaccine program, will serve as principal investigator of the five-year study. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...Advances emerging in hepatitis management
...coinfection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a major worldwide public health problem. Researchers in the VA Healthcare System examined the proportion of chronic HCV-infected patients who had been tested for HIV and related risk factors and found that improved screening programs ...Prevalence of chlamydia high among young adults in U.S.
...crease susceptibility to and transmission of human immunodeficiency virus in both men and women. Early detection and treatment of these infections is challenging because most women and men with chlamydial infection and many women with gonorrhea are asymptomatic. Although screening for chlamydia is widely recommende...Prevalence of HIV among childbearing women has declined in New York
CHICAGO The prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among childbearing women has declined in New York from 1988 through 2000, according to an article in the May issue of The Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. According to information ...Smoking increases papillomavirus risk in HIV-infected women
...s. HIV infection, of course, is a prime example of immunodeficiency disease. The investigators pointed out that smoking has been associated with impaired cellular, humoral, and mucosal immunity, and with deranged pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokine production as well....HIV: A sugar shield to evade host defences
The extreme diversity of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) strains is a major obstacle to anti-AIDS vaccine elaboration or the development of new treatments against the disease. IRD scientists, working jointly with other institutes (1), used statistical methods to determine the adaptive molecular......uch potentially fatal disorders as severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID). Physicians at Duke University Medi...c emergency. There is no screening for any primary immunodeficiency disease at birth or during childhood and adulthood in any country. Thus, most patients are not diagn...