What Doctors Don't Tell YouHIV positive women are often told not to breastfeed in order to prevent transmission of the virus to their child. However, a new study suggests that this advice is overly cautious. ...
HIV infection is not so easily spread by heterosexual sex as scientists had feared. ...
Drugs taken to prevent Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) can safely be stopped in HIV patients who develop an immunological response following highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), acco ...
HIV patients taking a combination of antiretroviral drugs may be at an increased risk of developing lipodystrophy a metabolic abnormality that can result in weight gain and fat redistribution. ...
Protease inhibitors considered the great hope for HIV treatment cause strange fatty deposits in patients, some so severe that "buffalo humps" along the spine have been reported. ...
Q My hearing has been deteriorating for a long time and, two years ago, it came to a head after a long airplane flight. Since then, I have had a varied selection of antibiotic drops for my ears. But now, after two years, it has been diagnosed as an...
As Duesberg and Eleopulos point out, HIV is one of some 100 to 150 latent retroviruses in humans, all with the same genetic structure. In the early 1980s, both Robert Gallo from the US's National ...
A leading researcher claims the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is fighting back against antiviral drugs with the emergence of new drug resistant strains. ...
The idea that HIV is a virus that leads inexorably to AIDS has again been questioned following the close study of a baby born HIV-positive in a Los Angeles hospital. ...
Thousands of people wrongly believe they are HIV infected because of the standard Western blot test which is giving false positive results in nearly 5 per cent of cases. ...
