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Men and women infected with HIV dramtically reduced the risk of transmitting the virus to their sexual partners through initiation of oral antiretroviral therapy (ART), according to findings from a large multinational clinical study conducted by the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN).
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Elite suppressors are that 1% or fewer of HIV patients who do not develop signs of disease progression despite living for years without treatment.
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HIV research increasingly points to a connection between CD8 T cells and suppressed virus, but precisely how this works remains a mystery.
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Investigators studying "elite suppressors," this unique group of HIV-infected individuals who can ward off illness from HIV for years or even decades, have found clues that might lead to powerful new treatments.
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International HIV vaccine trials underway in resource-poor settings provide good examples of how clinical research (CR) can be done in both ethical and culturally-sensitive ways despite a wide variety of obstacles.
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A husband and wife HIV transmission pair offer researchers a rare look at what happens when a long-term nonprogressor is compared over time with an elite suppressor.
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From 1985 to 2008, all first-ever strokes in the city of Dijon, France (150,000 inhabitants) were recorded, and among those patients who were testable (3201/3948 or 81%), 20.4% had post-stroke dementia.
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A small study of the effects of acute cell phone use on brain glucose metabolism revealed significant increases in areas near the location of a phone's antenna. The findings do not imply that cell phone use causes brain damage, only that the electromagnetic fields from them do cause changes in brain function.
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Physicians often do not choose the same clinical treatments for themselves as they would recommend to their patients.
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