A study of 209,000 patients found that the fats in the blood were not much different if the patient fasted 1 hour or 16 hours. This finding is contrary to previous opinions. (more…)
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El arsenal de armas de la comunidad en la lucha contra la expansión del VIH (more…)
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TREATMENT IS PREVENTION (?) I attended the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) in early (more…)
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More from the International AIDS Conference TREATMENT AS PREVENTION At UCSF (the large hospital in San Francisco) they decided to offer HIV treatment (more…)
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Conference coverage: Starting ARVS, PreP and New Booster In the past we treated anyone with a CD4 <200 or <14%. Now the guidelines (more…)
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A 54 year old man is brought to the hospital by his relatives. He is very underweight and weak. He has a fever, cough, and can’t swallow well. (more…)
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Los seres humanos somos, por naturaleza, criaturas sociales. Desde nuestro nacimiento, aprendemos quienes somos y como encajamos en nuestro entorno a través de nuestras relaciones con los demás. (mo
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Five years ago, the “Berlin patient” (a US Citizen living in Germany), Timothy Brown, had HIV and cancer of the lymph nodes, lymphoma, and needed a bone marrow (more…)
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I’d like to summarize and comment on a few new journal articles that just came out. (more…)
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(Noticias del CROI 2012) El 5 de marzo del 2012, investigadores y médicos líderes en el campo del VIH se reunieron en Seattle, (more…)
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Vivir con VIH no es nada divertido. Al ser una enfermedad crónica, mantenerla bajo control es una tarea y una responsabilidad constante de 24 horas. Esta tarea es mucho más difícil (more…)
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Recent headlines show that more people died of Hepatitis C than HIV last year. Since Hepatitis C is now known to be more sexually transmitted than before, MSMs (more…)
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You’ve heard about Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, Herpes, Warts, and Syphilis, the most common Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs). We forget that Hepatitis B and C (more…)
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There are new guidelines for treating and evaluating patients over 50 years of age as a result of a multi-year effort on the part of specialists in older patient s (gerontologists or geriatricians) (m
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We recently held an “Ask the Doctor” session for Spanish-speaking HIV consumers. I’d like to share the questions and (more…)
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El Año Nuevo es una excelente oportunidad para pensar en formas de cómo mejorar uno mismo; sin embargo, (more…)
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Es importante entender que la salud oral es más que tener dientes fuertes. Cualquier problema de salud oral tiene un efecto (more…)
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You see the photos of the young men in this magazine and wonder why you do not look like that. We have heard much about testosterone and anabolic steroids. (more…)
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HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) Problemas de memoria y atención en VIH En los últimos 20 años, las investigaciones científicas han ayudado a tener una mejor comprensión (more…)
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20-60% of adults on this planet have been infected by Toxoplasmosis. The infection usually comes out if the person’s (more…)
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