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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¡Pruebas de Papanicolaou para los hombres! Sí, escuchó bien. En primer lugar, ¿que es una prueba de Papanicolaou? La prueba de Papanicolaou (también conocida como frotis de Pap) es una prueba de (mor
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Si está buscando a un experto en nutrición, usted necesita ir con un nutriólogo profesional (RD por sus siglas en inglés). (more…)
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