Long-term antiretroviral therapy helps people with HIV reduce the risk of pneumonia and shingles by strengthening the immune ...
Abnormal expansion of PD-1+ T lymphocytes may be a sign of lupus nephritis onset in patients with SLE. Elevated PD-1+CD4+ T cells represent an independent risk factor for lupus nephritis (LN) and may ...
Sitting opposite my date in a lowkey coffee shop in Soho, the world went by as we chatted continuously for over an hour. We covered everything from our day jobs and places we’d travelled to the ...
Background: Excessive weight gain is a current concern among People Living with HIV (PLHIV) starting ART. Objectives: To evaluate the weight gain after 48-weeks of ART in naive patients, according ...
1 Department of Medicine, Security Forces Hospital, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. 2 Laboratory and Blood Bank Department, Security Forces Hospital, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. We present a rare case of a ...
HIV and tuberculosis (TB) remain closely linked public health threats in sub-Saharan Africa, with South Africa bearing the highest burden of both diseases. In KwaZulu-Natal, where HIV prevalence peaks ...
Living with HIV means becoming fluent in a language of numbers that might seem confusing at first but actually hold the key to your health and future. Two numbers in particular – your viral load and ...
Hope for adults and children with cancers Camilla Jandus' team is currently preparing a clinical trial of TCR-engineered CD4-based cell therapy. The trial will include different types of cancer ...
Despite all the research into the benefits of antiretroviral therapy (ART), clinicians are still unable to answer some of the simplest questions patients routinely ask. Among the most common: What is ...
A panelist discusses how CD4 counts serve as measures of immune system status that typically increase by about 200 in the first year of antiretroviral therapy. Although there can be laboratory ...
The pursuit of being seen as “normal” has served the LGBTQ movement well. But is there such a thing as too normal? In late March, a group of Republicans in California sparked controversy for their ...