AIDS Patients Face Downside of Living Longer
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As AIDS patients live longer they can experience a host of unexpected medical conditions, which challenge the prevailing view of the disease as chronic and manageable.
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but a longer life is not one of them, researchers reported yesterday. Writing in The Journal of Clinical Oncology
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Medical advances are forcing more patients and families to confront ever more grueling choices about living and dying.
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It's an Achilles' heel of HIV therapy: The AIDS virus can sneak into the brain to cause dementia, despite today's best medicines. Now scientists are beginning to test drugs that may protect against the memory loss and other symptoms of so-called neuroAIDS, which afflicts at least one in five people with HIV and is becoming more common as patients live longer.
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With AIDS becoming the leading cause of death for women aged 25-44, local organizers will focus on women during this week&#39;s World AIDS Day events.
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Small victories are being won against  the AIDS virus, experts said on Wednesday as a report showed  that 10 times more people in Africa are getting life-saving HIV  drugs than did three years ago, but overall most people who  need treatment are still not getting it.
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Certain vitamin supplements may shorten rather than prolong lifespan, research has suggested.
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AIDS sufferers and transplant patients are at a much higher risk than the general population of developing a range of cancers, Australian research released Friday has found.
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When Sharon Hollis was 27 she had heard of HIV and AIDS, but like most people, she thought it wouldn&#39;t happen to her. After her brother died in 1986 from HIV complications, she noticed that
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The number of AIDS patients receiving life-extending drugs in poor countries has jumped to 700,000 from 440,000 six months ago, U.N. agencies said on Wednesday, but warned much more needed to be done.
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The move that could potentially affect tens of thousands of AIDS patients in poor countries who have only recently entered treatment.
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HIV-infected babies have a greater chance of survival if they receive treatment before they show signs of illness or a weakened immune system, the International AIDS Society (IAS) was told on Tuesday.
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Within the next 25 years, AIDS is set to join heart disease and stroke as the top three causes of death worldwide, according to a study published online Monday.
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More than a third of  patients in Africa die or stop taking HIV drugs within two years of starting, research shows.
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Treating genital herpes may slow the progression of the AIDS virus in those infected with both viruses, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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A shortage of doctors and nurses means people are dying unnecessarily from HIV/Aids in Southern Africa.
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One of the largest-ever studies of HIV treatment has found that patients who temporarily stop taking their powerful medicines more than double their risk of dying.