HIV Therapy Just Got Easier: A New Strategy for Treating Patients With Drug-Resistant HIV
HIV Therapy Just Got Easier: A New Strategy for Treating Patients with Drug-Resistant HIV – A new multi-site study led by Karen Tashima, M.D., director of the HIV Clinical Trials Program at The Miriam Hospital, reveals patients with drug-resistant H…
Emil 'Tom' Frei III, MD, Eternal Optimist and Father of Combination …
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With his colleague and near-namesake Emil Freireich, MD, of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Dr. Frei became known as the “father of combination chemotherapy” for demonstrating in the 1950s and '60s that treatment with multiple …
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It's time to turn inside out
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No drug is without side effects. Controlling symptoms with drugs does not equate to healing. It simply suppresses the disease. Inside Out approach attempts to find the underlying cause of the imbalance and correct it through proper nutritional and …
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A Drug to Cut VTE Risk After Warfarin
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The number needed to treat to prevent one episode of recurrent fatal or nonfatal VTE was 14. “Apixaban is definitely a very effective drug and appears to be safe for VTE patients,” said Agnes Lee, MD, the director of the thrombosis program at Vancouver …
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Marijuana Not Medicine, Addiction Experts Say – Medscape
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"Marijuana should not be approved outside of FDA-approved channels," said Stuart Gitlow, MD, MPH, president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), which sponsored the news conference here during the society's 44th Annual Medical …
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