Is It Safe to Have Your Prescription Filled At A Compounding Pharmacy?
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April 2012
Essential Minerals for HIV+ People
From the book “Built to Survive (click here) Minerals 1. Calcium – 300 mg or more three times per day. Take for strong bones, nerve health, and muscle growth itself. Calcium and magnesium are nutrients that Dr. Jon Kaiser recommends to prevent and treat neuropathy. Optimal calcium intake improves insulin sensitivity,[i] so calcium is another nutrient that might help
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Zoledronate Protects HIV Positive Men against Bone Loss for at Least 5 Years
This is groundbreaking Two doses sustain increases in bone density past 5 years (plus calcium and vitamin D) https://www.hivandhepatitis.com/hiv-related-conditions/hiv-bone-loss-osteoporosis/3542-zoledronate-protects-hiv-positive-men-against-bone-loss-for-at-least-5-years
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Merck’s Cavalier Attitude Towards the Welfare of HIV/HCV Coinfected Patients
What You Don’t Know, You Can Selltagline Spring 2012<https://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/tagline/2012/spring/tagline/2012/spring>by Tracy SwanIn places where access to antiretroviral therapy is widespread, peopleliving with HIV are now dying from a common and curable coinfection:hepatitis C virus (HCV). HIV increases the risk for, and accelerates therate of, liver disease from hepatitis C. Pegylated interferon andribavirin, medications used to treat
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Interleukin-7 is Looking Better and Better….
CROI 2012- Oral Presentation #94: Gut Mucosa T Lymphocyte Restoration in Chronically HIV+ Patients Treated with Recombinant Interleukin-7 HIV infection caused decreases in CD4 cells in the gut mucosa that are only partially restored by ART. This study was an open-label study of recombinant interleukin-7 (rhIL-7) (manufactured by Cytheris) in chronically HIV-infected persons, on ART,
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A friendlier Tenofovir-like Drug?
GS-7340 : Tenofovir Prodrug Requires Lower Doses, But Will It Be Friendlier on Kidney and Bones? CROI 2012- Oral Presentation #103. GS-7340 25 mg and 40 mg Demonstrate Superior Efficacy to Tenofovir 300 mg in a 10-day Monotherapy Study of HIV-1+ Patients GS-7340 is a novel prodrug of tenofovir (TVF) that has shown greater antiviral
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Can an Alzheimer’s Drug Help HIV+ People with Cognitive Dysfunction?
CROI 2012 Paper #482. Rivastigmine for the Treatment of HIV-associated Neurocognitive Disorders: A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Crossover Pilot Study The prevalence of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) remains high despite successful antiretroviral therapy. This study performed by researchers from the HIV Swiss Cohort aimed at looking at the effect of rivastigmine on HAND in patients with
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Is It Safe to Give the Shingles Vaccine to HIV Positive People?
CROI 1012: Oral presentation #96 . ZOSTAVAX Is Generally Safe and Immunogenic in HIV+ Adults Virologically Suppressed on ART: Results of a Phase 2, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Trial Risk of recurrent/severe herpes zoster (HZ) is increased in HIV+ patients. To date, use of ZOSTAVAX® (ZV; live attenuated zoster vaccine live) has been contraindicated for people
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Do Friendly Bugs Improve Immune Function?
CROI 2012 Oral Presentation #95 . Probiotic Supplementation of ARV Treatment during SIV Infection of Pigtail Macaques Results in Enhanced GI Tract CD4+ T Cell Frequency and Immunological Function During progressive HIV/SIV (simian immune defficiency virus in monkeys) infections, damage to the GI tract leads to microbial translocation, which may contribute to chronic immune activation
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Undetectable HIV Viral Load in the Blood? Not Necessarily in Semen, Boston HIV Study Finds
Can someone with no detectable HIV virus in their blood due to successful HIV treatment infect someone? “Undetectable viral loads in blood is not a guarantee that HIV is also undetectable in semen, according to a new study involving 101 HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) conducted in Boston and published online ahead of print
How electrical brain stimulation can change the way we think
Have you wanted to take a vacation from your own head? You could do it easily enough with liberal applications of alcohol or hallucinogens, but that’s not the kind of vacation I’m talking about. What if you could take a very specific vacation only from the stuff that makes it painful to be you: the
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