The Die is Cast at the STARTDavid Alain Wohl, MD – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill —————————– “HIV medicine has transitioned from an oncological mode created to manage a progressive and complicated fatal disease to a model that more closely resembles a diabetes clinic, where lab metrics are used to plot a […]
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Subject: NATAP/CROI: Frailty/Muscle Loss in HIV Increases Mortality & is Common NATAP https://natap.org/ _______________________________________________ Frailty & Muscle Loss Increase Mortality & Are Common in HIV+ from Jules Levin at CROI Live in Seattle. This poster session is a breakthrough in that it is identifying that muscle loss & frailty are fairly common in HIV+ persons & they
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Today was the start of the first international workshop on Aging and HIV in Baltimore. The program was started by Dr L. Ferrucci who gave the first presentation on frailty. He works in geriatrics and presented general data from previous studies in the general aging HIV negative population. He presented compelling data that showed that
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Strive To Thrive While Growing Older With HIV By Dennis McMillanPublished: February 11, 2010 Nelson Vergel. Photo by Rink. Positive Force will present “Survivor Health Wisdom: Strive to Thrive While Growing Older with HIV” on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 6:30-9:30 p.m. at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market and Octavia Streets. Join Nelson Vergel,
I bet this could compete with Theratecnologies/Serono’s Tesamorelin eventually. But Merck is smart going after baby aging boomers An Anti-frailty Pill For Seniors? New Drug Increases Muscle Mass In Arms And Legs Of Older AdultsScienceDaily (Nov. 5, 2008) — Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System report that a daily single oral dose of
