Seeking to prevent life-threatening side effects, the Food and Drug Administration is urging doctors to use a genetic test to screen patients before prescribing a drug widely used for H.I.V. infection and AIDS.
In an advisory it is expected to issue Thursday, the agency says that patients with a particular variation in an immune system gene [...]
F.D.A. Urges Genetic Test Before Giving AIDS Drug
Genetic trait may increase risk of HIV among blacks
New research reveals a genetic trait among 60% of American blacks and 90% of Africans may make them 40% more susceptible to HIV infection.
Sub-Saharan Africa shares just ten percent of the world population, yet the region is home to 70 percent of all people living with HIV disease. In the United States, African Americans [...]
Study shows improvement in AIDS/HIV survival rates
AIDS drugs have so improved the survival prospects of people with HIV that death rates among the recently diagnosed in industrialized countries have become comparable to those never exposed to the virus, according to a newly published European study.
Medical records show that, before 1996 - when combinations of antiviral drugs became available - the death [...]