Latest - HIV/AIDS

• IAS 2021 Younger Adults With HIV Have Higher CVD Risk but Low ASCVD Scores Even without traditional cardiovascular risks factors such as smoking and obesity, people under 40 with HIV have substantially higher CVD risks than the general public.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2021
• Dolutegravir Confirmed as Effective Second-Line HIV Therapy A new randomized trial bolsters efficacy evidence for dolutegravir and finds no benefit in switching from tenofovir in second-line HIV treatment.
  Medscape Medical News, July 21, 2021
• 25 Best Vacation Ideas for Doctors: Popular Spots or Away From the Crowds? Everyone's clamoring for a change of scenery. Whether you want to visit popular destinations or stay away from crowds, here are some terrific choices.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, July 21, 2021
• IAS 2021 Monkeys May Lead the Way for Immunotherapy HIV Cure Mindful of the pitfalls of previous monkey studies on HIV, the researchers designed the trial to make it difficult for the drug combination to show better results than might be realistic in humans.
  Medscape Medical News, July 21, 2021
• IAS 2021 Lenacapavir Shows Viral Suppression in Drug-Resistant HIV The novel drug, given every 6 months in combination with optimized ART, shows viral suppression in new 26-week data.
  Medscape Medical News, July 20, 2021
• Matthew Akiyama, MD, Receives NIDA Avenir Grant The blood-borne infections sleuth is challenged with unraveling disease transmission in Sub-Saharan Africa.
  Medscape Medical News, July 20, 2021
• IAS 2021 HIV: Could Another Two-Drug Regimen Be on the Horizon? Side effects from once-daily islatravir plus doravirine are short-lived and mild.
  Medscape Medical News, July 20, 2021
• IAS 2021 HIV Increases Risk for Severe COVID-19 Worldwide data from WHO suggest that HIV itself is an independent risk factor for severe COVID-19, but viral load and CD4 weren't part of the calculations.
  Medscape Medical News, July 19, 2021
• AstraZeneca-Oxford Vaccine Protective Against COVID-19 in People With HIV The AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine is effective in people living with HIV, at least in the short term, according to an open-label substudy within the protocol of a larger phase 2/3 trial.
  Reuters Health Information, July 16, 2021
• IAS 2021 Resistant TB: Adjustments to BPaL Regimen Reduce AEs, Not Efficacy High success rates in tuberculosis treatment remain after lowering linezolid dose and duration to reduce toxic effects.
  Medscape Medical News, July 19, 2021
• Hansel Tookes Wins Avenir Grant for Tele-Harm Reduction Research The 4-year NIDA grant, intended to stimulate innovation and transformative research from early-stage investigators, totals $2.3 million.
  Medscape Medical News, July 15, 2021
• Switching to DTG plus bDRV in Treatment-Experienced HIV-1 Is this dual regimen an effective switch strategy in highly treatment-experienced HIV-1 patients?
  HIV Medicine, July 15, 2021
• IAS 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from IAS 2021
  Medscape HIV/AIDS, July 14, 2021
• IAS 2021 The Latest on HIV Care, Cure, and PrEP As the world begins to make sense of the impact of COVID-19 on health, HIV researchers get back to the work of optimizing treatments and tackling the structural barriers that keep patients sick.
  Medscape Medical News, July 13, 2021
• Latest FDA Pembrolizumab Approval Expands Label to Cutaneous SCCs The objective response rate with treatment in a cohort of 54 patients with locally advanced disease was 50%.
  FDA Approvals, July 13, 2021
• High Levels of Prevention-Effective Adherence to HIV PrEP An analysis of data from a large PrEP trial finds high levels of prevention-effective adherence when considering sexual behavior and HIV risk during the trial period.
  JAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, July 13, 2021
• To End Burnout, Doctors Must Change the Culture of Medicine   The culture of medicine is an invisible force with the strength of gravity that keeps the profession stuck, Robert Pearl says. To move forward, physicians have to own their role and drive change.
  Medscape, July 09, 2021
• You Have a Sixth Sense You Probably Aren't Using Yet Dolphins do it underwater and bats tap into this in darkness to find their way. Some people who are blind already use it and scientists say it is only a matter of time before more people learn how.
  WebMD Health News, July 09, 2021
• Medscape Residents Salary & Debt Report 2021 Medscape's Residents Salary & Debt Report 2021 explores how much residents earn, how much they owe, and how they've responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, July 09, 2021
• Stress May Turn Hair Gray, but Calm May Reverse It The theory that stress can turn a person's hair gray is difficult to prove, but a new way of measuring has researchers reasoning that the process can be slowed or even temporarily reversed.
  WebMD Health News, July 08, 2021