HIV-positive baby cured with conventional drug therapy
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“This is a proof of concept that HIV can be potentially curable in infants,” said Dr. Deborah Persaud, a virologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, who presented the findings at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in …
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Child Born with HIV Cured by Doctors
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According to The Guardian, medical staff and scientists are unclear as to why the treatment was effective, but the success has raised hopes. Doctors did not release the … Usually, they give the child a single antiretroviral drug, but this time they …
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A first: Baby with HIV is 'functionally cured'
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An infant born with the virus that causes AIDS was “functionally cured” after receiving early, aggressive drug treatment, according to a research team that includes a University of Massachusetts Medical School professor. The child, a girl born in …
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Asthma drug calms chronic hives, rashes
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The drug was tested on 323 peple at 55 medical centers from 2009 to 2011. The subjects were mostly women and between the ages of 12 and 75. The participants had suffered with chronic hives and rash for at least six months and many had dealt with the …
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