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Aug 15, 2016
Overgrowth of a certain species of vaginal bacteria was associated with a 13-fold higher likelihood of becoming infected with HIV, while another species was found to lower tenofovir levels and may con...
Aug 15, 2016
A study conducted in a cohort of hospitalised adults with HIV-associated tuberculosis (TB) co-infection from Khayelitsha found that having a detectable cytomegalovirus (CMV) viral load was assoc...
Jun 14, 2016
CV Events & Mortality in Diabetes Few large studies have assessed the impact of cardiovascular (CV) events on mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes. To address this research gap, investigato...
Jun 06, 2016
A cross-sectional study involving HIV-positive patients and HIV-negative controls investigates why HIV patients have increased risk of cardiovascular disease. They had three aims. Patients wi...
Jun 06, 2016
Research has shown that physician burnout is a growing epidemic throughout the United States. “In medicine, high levels of burnout have been found among both physicians and nurses in many studies sp...
Nov 07, 2014
This Physician’s Weekly feature on initiating insulin and strategies to overcome patient fears was completed in cooperation with the experts at the American Diabetes Association. Many patients wi...
May 19, 2014
The American Diabetes Association recently released nutrition therapy recommendations for the management of diabetes. Published in Diabetes Care, the new statement provides a set of recommendations ba...
May 17, 2014
The American Diabetes Association recently released nutrition therapy recommendations for the management of diabetes. Published in Diabetes Care, the new statement provides a set of recommendations ba...
May 02, 2014
Correspondence of Skeptical Scalpel and Dennis K. Laurion (view original post): I very much appreciate your email and the clarification of your situation. I hope you realize that I personally took ...
Jan 20, 2014
A couple of months ago, a post called "Everything's my fault: How a surgeon says I'm sorry" appeared on KevinMD. It was by a plastic surgeon who feels that no matter what goes wrong with a patient, su...
Jun 25, 2013
New research is being presented at IAS 2013, the International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment, and Prevention, from June 30 to July 3 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Meeting High...
May 20, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO -- The fifth edition of the "psychiatrist's bible" was officially released here in all its 947-page glory, with its developers offering a spirited rebuttal to their critics. Known as ...
May 17, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO — Integrated care, the growing problem of addiction, bullying, cyberbullying, and telepsychiatry are among the "hot" clinical topics being presented at the American Psychiatric Associa...
May 13, 2013
ARLINGTON, Va. (May 13, 2013) – The American Psychiatric Association’s 166th Annual Meeting, will feature a series of sessions highlighting issues relating to diverse populations, including racial...
May 13, 2013
New research is being presented at APA 2013, the American Psychiatric Association’s 166th annual meeting, from May 18-21 in San Francisco. Meeting Highlights Patient-Perceived Barriers to Alco...
May 13, 2013
ARLINGTON, Va. (May 10, 2013) – The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and APA have collaborated to organize a special track, Advancing Psychiatric Practice Through the Science of Addiction, at...
Mar 06, 2013
Children on antiretroviral therapy (ART) for more than two years who continued taking daily cotrimoxazole had significantly fewer hospitalizations for malaria as well as for non-malarial infections (n...
Mar 06, 2013
Very early antiretroviral treatment may limit the size of the HIV reservoir in adults and children, according to studies presented on 4 March at the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic I...
Oct 05, 2012
The Particulars: Among children aged 2 and younger, influenza-associated morbidity is high. It is not clear, however, how the clinical complications, anti-viral treatment patterns, and healthcare use ...
Sep 14, 2012
The benefits of antiretroviral therapy (ART) during acute and early HIV infection remain unproven, despite several years of investigations into the topic. Studies have yielded conflicting results, wit...