Controlling HIV Without Medication
Research indicates that about 1% of patients with HIV are able to keep the infection under control...
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Infectious Disease
Guidelines for PrEP to Prevent HIV Infections
Since the early days of the HIV epidemic in the United States, clinicians have made continued...
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Detecting Acute HIV in the ED
Detecting HIV in the acute stage is important because patients are highly infectious at that time...
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Teens With HIV: A Look at Treatment Trends
In recent years, the incidence of HIV infection has decreased for most age groups. Study results...
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Exploring Outpatient Antibiotic Programs
Several years ago, New York Hospital Queens (NYHQ) opened an Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic...
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The Sensitive Subject of HIV Treatment Side Effects
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is essential to keeping HIV from replicating and further infecting...
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Examining Why HIV Patients Discontinue ART
Discontinuation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) among patients with HIV has been found to lead to...
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Protocol-Based Care for Septic Shock
Until recently, the hospital mortality of patients with severe sepsis and septic shock was 50%. In...
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Updating Pneumococcal Vaccine Recommendations
Pneumococcal disease is an infection caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria (also referred to...
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CT-Based Lung Cancer Screening in HIV
Studies have found that patients with HIV have a two- to five-fold greater risk of lung cancer...
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New Guidelines for Hepatitis C Testing
In 2003, the CDC published recommendations on the laboratory testing and reporting of hepatitis C...
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Managing Older Patients With HIV
In 2015, more than half of people with HIV in the U.S. will be aged 50 or older, according to...
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Making the Case for Meningococcal Disease Prevention
While relatively rare, meningococcal disease is a serious cause of morbidity and mortality, even...
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HIV Screening in the ED
The CDC and other agencies have emphasized that EDs should offer HIV screening because of their...
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Ebola, Leadership, and Responsibility
I am a surgeon. I am not an Epidemiologist nor an Infectious Disease specialist. Anything I say on...
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New Ebola Guidelines for Emergency Departments
The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) has been working with the CDC and the...
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Progress Seen in Managing Blacks With HIV
Research has shown that the percentages of blacks who are linked to and retained in HIV care,...
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Mental Health in Youths With HIV
Previous research has linked poor mental health among people living with HIV to a greater...
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Ebola: Are We Prepared?
While the government came out last week proclaiming that healthcare workers are prepared for an...
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