http://www.theaidsreader.com AIDS and HIV News and Information - The AIDS Reader en Copyright 2009, CMPMedica US Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:00:01 GMT Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:00:01 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.theaidsreader.com/display/article/1145619/1794377?CID=rss A Roster of HIV/AIDS-Related Resources Wed, 9 Feb 2011 12:00:00 GMT http://www.theaidsreader.com/display/article/1145619/1639245?CID=rss Substance abuse, especially injection drug abuse, is often associated with chronic infectious diseases, including HIV infection, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and tuberculosis. Delivery of effective treatment for these chronic conditions can be very challenging in patients who continue to abuse substances. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:00:00 GMT http://www.theaidsreader.com/display/article/1145619/1585480?CID=rss How likely is it that an HIV patient's infection will become less severe? A bioinformatics researcher at Drexel University has developed a competition on Kaggle that asks participants to find the markers in an HIV sequence that could predict a change in severity of infection. Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:00:00 GMT http://www.theaidsreader.com/display/article/1145619/1518632?CID=rss <img src="/image/image_gallery?img_id=1518737&t=1265223221750" width="100" style="padding-right:5px;" align="left"/>A 50-year-old African American man with HIV infection had a CD4+ T-cell count of 18/μL (1%), CD8+ cell count of 1035/μL (69%), and CD4:CD8 ratio of 0.01 at the time of diagnosis. He had multiple erythematosquamous skin lesions over his forehead, face, chest, back, and extremities Wed, 3 Feb 2010 12:00:00 GMT http://www.theaidsreader.com/display/article/1145619/1518303?CID=rss In 2006, the CDC recommended “opt-out” routine HIV testing in all health care encounters for persons 13 to 64 years of age. While this recommendation has garnered some support, concerns about the feasibility of such routine testing in a busy office without disrupting patient care has persisted. We report the results of a pilot study to determine the feasibility of routine testing in a busy urban clinic. Tue, 2 Feb 2010 12:00:00 GMT http://www.theaidsreader.com/display/article/1145619/1486087?CID=rss We report 4 cases of bladder cancer in an ethnically diverse population of about 2500 HIV-infected patients. These patients were younger than the median age at diagnosis of bladder cancer in the United States. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.theaidsreader.com/display/article/1145619/1420071?CID=rss The lifetime cumulative risk of at least 1 abnormal ocular lesion for an HIV-positive person ranges from 52% to 100%. Ophthalmic involvement can occur during the early phase of HIV infection, and ocular lesions are mainly noted in the posterior segment.1,2 Fri, 5 Jun 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.theaidsreader.com/display/article/1145619/1419085?CID=rss With the FDA approval of a new small-molecule drug to treat HIV infection by blocking the CCR5 chemokine receptor and with several other drugs of this class in development for this and other indications, there is an increased interest in determining the potential influence on tumor promotion or suppression that blocking this receptor may have. Large, long-term clinical studies would be the ideal method for evaluating the potential increase in cancer risk, and at least one such study is under way (see http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00665561?order=49). Wed, 3 Jun 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.theaidsreader.com/display/article/1145619/1417826?CID=rss A 30-year-old white man with HIV infection since September 2004 presented to his infectious disease physician in January 2007 to restart his antiretroviral therapy. Three months earlier, he had discontinued all of his antiretroviral medications because of his loss of health insurance. He remained asymptomatic during this period, with the exception of some mild oral candidiasis. Fri, 29 May 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.theaidsreader.com/display/article/1145619/1416798?CID=rss In a previous Editorial here, I discussed the need for broader uptake of the 2006 CDC recommendations for routine voluntary HIV screening.1 Tue, 26 May 2009 12:00:00 GMT