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Antiretroviral drugs from four developing countries have been found to meet United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) standards for the active drug amount listed on the label, according to a study in the May 1 Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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Many AIDS service organizations (ASOs) and tax-funded HIV/AIDS prevention programs have struggled in recent years with budget cutbacks, new grant and oversight requirements, and program censorship either overt or subtle.
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For those who doubt that a large AIDS service organization (ASO) can succeed financially without big private or government grants, Housing Works is an example of how it can be done.
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These data support the hypothesis that favorable survival that is associated with optimal debulking of advanced ovarian cancers is due to, at least in part, the underlying biologic characteristics of these cancers.
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The primary therapeutic goals when initiating therapy in patients infected with HIV are maximal and long-lasting suppression of viral replication, maintenance or restoration of immunologic function, improvement of quality of life, and reduction of HIV-related morbidity and mortality.(1) Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) using combinations of antiretroviral agents has been shown to achieve these goals to a significant degree and reduce morbidity and mortality in the population of HIV-infected patients.
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Almost 1 in 20 Candida species isolated were misidentified by clinical laboratories; these errors have potential for engendering adverse clinical outcomes. C glabrata was the species most frequently misidentified.
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Mupirocin application to the nose of hospitalized Staphylococcus aureus carriers did not decrease the incidence of nosocomial S aureus infection, but it did delay its appearance.
