- Researchers in France conducted a randomized, placebo-controlled study called ANRS 120-Fosivir in HIV-positive people with osteoporosis. The two-year study of ...
- The most commonly prescribed drugs for increasing bone mineral density and reducing the risk of fractures is a class of drugs called bisphosphonates, which ...
- Large studies, primarily from Western Europe, the U.S. and Australia, have found that potent combination anti-HIV therapy (commonly called ART or HAART) has led ...
- In the UK, Professor Caroline Sabin, PhD, from University College London has been analysing different studies of HIV-positive people and how such studies ...
- When ART became available in Canada and other high-income countries in 1996, regimens were complex - they had specific food and water requirements, contained ...
- In high-income countries such as Canada, Australia and the U.S. and in regions such as Western Europe, huge advances have been made in the treatment of HIV ...
- Chromosomes, found in the centre of our cells, are the structures that house our genetic information (genes). The ends of the chromosomes are called telomeres. ...
- It is true that as people age, their immune systems (and other organs) decline. HIV infection itself does apparently prematurely age the immune system. However, ...
- The immune system is located in an organ called the spleen, the thymus gland, and in small clusters - lymph nodes and lymph tissues - throughout the body. ...
- The DAD study is a very large observational study that has recruited nearly 50,000 HIV-positive participants from Australia, Europe and the U.S. From time to ...
- The most recent analysis by the DAD team found that declining kidney function was found in about 2% of 22,000 HIV-positive participants who were monitored for ...
- The heart is a large muscular pump that helps push blood around the body. The pumping action of the heart is driven by regular waves of tiny electrical ...