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The authors describe a fatal case of H1N1 pandemic influenza A associated with pneumonia, which resulted in respiratory and renal failure in a 39-year-old HIV-positive woman.
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Good news for prevention of HIV and other STDs as a new year dawns. The second-generation FC2 Female Condom is available for purchase in the United States, which gives American women a nonlatex, female-controlled option in disease protection.
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HIV clinicians often work with patients who have such an overwhelming number of barriers to optimal treatment adherence that it's difficult to know where an adherence intervention should begin.
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Physicians in the developed parts of the world have an unrealistic expectation that when they order a patient's specimen to be sent to the microbiology laboratory for culture that the results they receive in the laboratory's report are always reliable and can be used to initiate or modify the patient's therapeutic regimen.
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A new report and review of the literature comes from Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston of a 77-year-old Native American with follicular thyroid cancer post-radiation that spread to his hip, resulting in metastatic disease. He developed septic shock and necrotizing fasciitis of both thighs.
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Dr. Scully reports no financial relationships relevant to this field of study. This study originally appeared in the February issue of Travel Medicine Advisor.
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In a study of hiv transmission, 3,408 HIV-1 serodis cordant couples were enrolled at 14 sites in Africa.
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Nested PCR using primers to amplify the mito chondrial large subunit of P. jirovecii was performed on lungs from patients who underwent autopsy at a large urban medical examiner's office in Chile.
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In this issue: Two oral medications for relapsing-remitting MS in phase III development; antihypertensives find new uses; Ginkgo biloba does not prevent cognitive decline in elderly; and FDA Actions.