Researchers studied the nature of the HIV epidemic in Maryland to show in one microcosm of the U.S. epidemic that different populations of at-risk individuals have different sub-types of the virus and will need to be handled differently.
As HIV researchers, clinicians, and public health officials continue to wait for an evidence-based biomedical prevention intervention, there remains a need for proven HIV prevention interventions targeting adolescents and young adults.
HIV clinicians are seeing growing numbers of teenagers and adults under age 25 among new HIV infection cases. It's a phenomenon that has researchers and public health officials scrambling to develop biomedical HIV prevention interventions specifically for youth.
On April 6, 2010, the FDA granted approval to a generic formulation of zidovudine injection USP, 10 mg/mL, packaged in 200 mg/20 mL single-use vials, manufactured by Pharmaforce, Inc., of Columbus, OH. FDA has determined that the generic formulation is bioequivalent and, therefore, therapeutically equivalent to the reference listed drug, Retrovir® IV Infusion, 10 mg/mL, of VIIV Healthcare Co.
Health care providers have been constantly amazed at the variation in response to infection with HIV-1. In our clinic, we now routinely see elderly patients who have been on various antiretroviral regimens over the years but still persist with high CD4 counts and low viral loads. They are truly long-term non-progressors.
Investigators of HIV among teenagers and young adults need to develop additional and sometimes complex strategies for enrolling trial participants.
One of the hottest topics in critical care these days is whether all ICUs should be staffed around the clock, seven days a week (24/7), by physicians with special training and qualifications in critical care (intensivists).