What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe HIV test for detecting AIDS is surrounded by controversy. Leaving aside the arguments about the supposed link between HIV and AIDS - still hotly debated in medical circles - the test
My sister, who lives in Holland, is a Parkinson’s patient who is treating her condition with marijuana - or derivatives of it. In the last couple of months, Dutch doctors have been allowed to prescribe marijuana-based medication for Parkinson’s,
Squabbling among drug companies is preventing proper research into AIDS therapy from taking place, a leading AIDS researcher has complained. Dr Joep Lange, from the AIDS therapy evaluation centre ...
All pre teenage children in America may soon be compulsorily vaccinated against AIDS and venereal disease. Children aged 11 and 12 are to be targeted in a proposed new wave of vaccinations before ...
Thalidomide could soon be making a return, this time as a mouth ulcer treatment. ...
The anti-AIDS drug AZT (Retrovir) is suddenly being pushed as a treatment for preventing HIV-positive mothers from passing on the condition to their unborn children. ...
Steroids have extreme and far-reaching effects on many systems of the body.
Immune system
* Reduce functions and numbers of T and B cells and other lymphocytes and macrophages
Several years ago, protease inhibitors were the Great White Hope of AIDS therapy. These drugs work by inhibiting the enzyme protease, which is crucial to HIV’s ability to reproduce.
People with AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) should beware of biopsies, according to doctors in the USA.
Since I last wrote about this in this column 10 years ago, reliable data have emerged from clinical trials validating a number of non-orthodox treatments for this condition.
