April 1st 2025
Family physician and researcher Mark Ebell, MD, discusses the clinical implications, efficacy, and role of gepotidacin in UTI management.
IAC: The Grim Days Recalled as AIDS Hits 25
August 21st 2006TORONTO -- The bleak early days of the AIDS crisis, when clinicians were grabbing at straws, provided lessons for today, said researchers who reviewed the history of the epidemic -- now in its 25th year -- at the 16th International AIDS Conference here.
IAC: Resistant TB Strain Kills South African HIV-Patients Within Days
August 18th 2006TORONTO -- An extensively drug-resistant virulent strain of tuberculosis (XDR-TB) killed 52 of 53 patients who were co-infected with HIV during an outbreak in a rural South African hospital, researchers reported here.
IAC: Drug-Resistant HIV Stable in Europe
August 15th 2006TORONTO -- The transmission of drug-resistant HIV appears to be stabilizing, at least in Europe, but about 9% of newly infected HIV patients still carry a virus that carries resistance mutations to one of the three main classes of anti-retroviral medications.