by University of Plymouth Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Drugs developed to treat AIDS and HIV could offer hope to patients diagnosed with the most common form of primary brain tumor. The breakthrough, co-funded by the charity Brain Tumor Research, is significant because, if further research is conclusive, the anti-retroviral drugs could be prescribed for patients...
by University of Virginia Jayakrishna Ambati, MD, and his collaborators have identified a group of drugs that may help stop a leading cause of vision loss after making an unexpected discovery that overturns a fundamental belief about DNA. Credit: UVA Health Scientists have identified a group of drugs that may help stop a leading cause of...
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM IMAGE: JAYAKRISHNA AMBATI, MD, AND COLLEAGUES FOUND THAT PATIENTS TAKING DRUGS CALLED NRTIS TO TREAT HIV AND HEPATITIS B HAD A 33% LOWER RISK OF DEVELOPING DIABETES. A group of drugs used to treat HIV and hepatitis B could be repurposed to prevent type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests. ...
by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress A team of doctors and researchers in China has found that drugs that are effective in treating patients with HIV are ineffective against COVID-19. In their paper published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the group describes the clinical trial they conducted with patients in Wuhan, China, and...
Sheen, 51, revealed his HIV-positive diagnosis in November 2015 In early 2016, he joined a Phase III clinical trial for PRO-140, an intravenous injection that is done once a week, rather than taking daily pills Last year Sheen told Daily Mail Online he experienced a ‘transformation’ after switching from the ‘cocktail of drugs’ to PRO-140...
