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  • New steroid drug boosts immunity in HIV study

    Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001

    HE-2000, an adrenal steroid which could be administered orally as a pulsed immune booster, has shown promising effects in its first clinical trial in HIV-positive people. Manufacturers Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals tested HE-2000 ...

  • Medicines Control Agency issues further warning on St John's Wort

    Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001

    The UK's Medicines Control Agency has issued guidance for doctors and people with HIV following the publication of a report showing that the popular herbal anti-depressant St John's Wort can ...

  • Salvage therapy: new protease inhibitors promising

    Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001

    Three new protease inhibitors appear to hold promise for people who have already suffered viral rebound with one or more PIs, according to findings presented at the Seventh Retroviruses Conference ...

  • Australian HIV vaccine shows promise

    Megan Nicholson | 05 March 2001

    Australian researchers are hoping to test an experimental DNA fowlpox virus in human studies in the near future following promising results in mice and monkeys. Study of the vaccine in over ...

  • Another drug bites the dust: Glaxo-Wellcome drop NNRTI

    Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001

    A once-a-day non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) that looked promising in phase I studies has been dropped by Glaxo-Wellcome because its interactions with other anti-HIV drugs are so problematic. GW420867X, licensed ...

  • Hepatitis B and C increase risk of liver toxicity after starting HAART

    Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001

    Co-infection with hepatitis B and/or C, rather than the use of particular antiretrovirals, is the main factor predicting the risk of developing liver toxicity after starting HAART, according to researchers ...

  • Nevirapine use in PEP: concerns over rash

    Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001

    The use of nevirapine for post-exposure prophylaxis may carry a risk of serious adverse effects unless the normal 4 week regimen is shortened, experts warned at the 6th Annual ...

  • Ho refuses to give up hope of eradicating HIV

    The search for a cure
    Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001

    In a coded riposte to last week’s announcement that US treatment guidelines will shift towards later treatment, David Ho told last week’s Eighth Annual Conference on Retroviruses that "it is ...

  • UNAIDS report on the global epidemic

    Anon | 05 March 2001

    Up to six million people may have been infected with HIV last year world-wide, according to the latest projections compiled by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and the ...

  • All pregnant women in the UK to be offered HIV tests

    Anon | 05 March 2001

    The Government has announced a new HIV testing programme aimed at reducing the number of babies born with HIV in the UK. All pregnant women are to be offered an ...

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