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Patients who adhered to prescribed anti-hypertensive medication experienced a significantly decreased risk of acute cardiovascular events, yet only 6 months after diagnosis, only 8.1% of patients were classified as having high adherence, 40.5% demonstrated intermediate adherence, and 51.4% demonstrated low adherence to prescribed medication regimens.
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It has been known for decades that influenza viruses have a propensity to affect muscle. Muscle aches from mild to severe occur regularly with the acute attack of the virus.
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A very low-carbohydrate diet results in similar weight loss as a low-fat diet, but participants on a low-fat diet have improved psychological mood and well-being compared with those on a low-carbohydrate diet.
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Screening STD clinic patients especially men who have sex with men (MSM) for signs of an acute, highly transmissable stage of HIV infection could heighten detection and prevention efforts, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Fatigue is such a common complaint among HIV patients that it's often ignored or expected in clinical care.
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On Nov. 5, 2009, using expedited review procedures developed to support the President's Emergency Program For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), granted tentative approval for lamivudine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate fixed dose combination tablets, 300mg/300mg.
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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.