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The current report examines the importance of patient age with regard to toxicity and response rates when treated with carboplatin and paclitaxel for advanced lung cancer. Similar toxicity profiles were observed in those younger or older than 70 years of age, and response rates were also similar.
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Hospital safety initiative targets behavioral health unit; Study shows safety risks for children, value of tool; HHS, hospital associations team up for patient safety
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Research and data presented at the 2003 National HIV Prevention Conference, held July 27-30, 2003, in Atlanta suggest that community-based organizations (CBOs); health care, treatment, and prevention clinics; and other public health organizations might need to consider initiating outreach programs to reach men who have sex with men (MSM) who use the Internet as a venue for meeting anonymous sexual partners.
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The Food and Drug Administration has approved Emtriva (FTC, emtricitabine), a new nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) to be used in combination with other antiretroviral agents.
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As if AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) directors and other people monitoring the costs of providing HIV drugs to the uninsured werent worried enough, they have a new potential problem to discuss: How would t he states and ADAP programs handle a large influx of new HIV and AIDS patients if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) succeeds in significantly increasing HIV testing rates?
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A recent study of student behavior in high schools where condoms are available suggests that the mere fact of having condoms in schools does not increase sexual behavior among students.1
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Successful Internet prevention programs need to reach the population most at risk for HIV and which uses the Internet as a major avenue for meeting anonymous sexual partners.