Liver News: Bye-Bye Biopsies? A simple new liver test is raising hopes of an alternative to the pain and riskiness of biopsies for sufferers of hepatitis C—at a time when hepatitis-related liver disease is the leading cause of death for Americans with HIV. Some hep-savvy skeptics are not convinced, though, that the still-experimental machine is up to the task.
January 17, 2006
SMART Doc Cal Cohen: Are The Med Holidays Over? Last week, POZ learned that the three-year-old treatment interruptions study known as Strategies for Management of Antiretroviral Therapy (SMART) had discontinued its “no treatment” arm because of a higher incidence of AIDS-related events in that group. So we checked in with Calvin Cohen, MD...
January 11, 2006
Milk Thistle Gone Sour? An herbal remedy called milk thistle that’s a favorite among people with liver problems is under the gun from a new study that questions its effectiveness—but may be less conclusive than recent headlines suggest.
January 04, 2006
What Did You Do (With That Viagra) on New Year’s Eve? AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest U.S. AIDS service organization, is popping Pfizer Pharmaceuticals’ cork about a year-end Viagra ad campaign that asked: “What are you doing New Year’s Eve?”
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