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Cachexia And Aids
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hydrazine sulfate and cachexia vaccineHave you heard of Professor M.J. Tisdale and his cachexia vaccine? Have you heard of Hydrazine Sulfate and the anti-wasting properties it has had in cancer patients?check out these links and please tell me what you...
Response from Nelson Vergel, B.S.Ch.E., M.B.A.
Program for Wellness Restoration
I have read a lot about hydrazine sulfate in the days when we had very little available for wasting syndrome. Unfortunately, I was never too convinced about its lean body mass enhancing properties. Now we have Oxandrin, Deca Durabolin, testosterone,...
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Explain cachexiaHi, I would like to know what is cachexia (i know it's to do with an amount of weight lost... Read more »Anthropometry in HIV wastingCould you please let me know the anthropometric procedures to be carried out and the related... Read more »
Articles
A Clinical Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for HIV/AIDSIntroduction Well-informed patients can optimize their quality of life through partnership with their physician in clinical decisionmaking. This collaborative process is particularly important for patients with advanced AIDS and their families.... Read more »
A Clinical Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for HIV/AIDSIntroduction Constitutional symptoms, reported by more than 50% of people with advanced HIV disease, often significantly compromise both physical functioning and quality of life. 1-3 The most common constitutional symptoms include weight loss,... Read more »
A Clinical Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for HIV/AIDSIntroduction Health professionals caring for people living with HIV will encounter myriad symptoms ranging from minor and bothersome problems to problems that are associated with great distress. In caring for a patient who presents with a symptom,... Read more »
Study Links Diet to Health in HIV Positive MenOne of the hallmarks of untreated HIV/AIDS is unintentional weight loss, or wasting. In the early 1980s, before the name AIDS was given to the pandemic, people in East Africa referred to AIDS-related wasting as "slim" or "slim disease." There... Read more »
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Dying from AIDS for lack of medicine
Posted by BabyPeanut, 3 Replies
Dying from AIDS for lack of medicine More than 36 million people are living with HIV or AIDS. Ninety percent are living in developing countries where the high prices of medications are effectively condemning them to death. Without drastic changes to... Read more » HIV-PET Scan
Posted by Anonymous
PET Scanning Helps Define Course of HIV-1 Infection: A Newsmaker Interview With C. David Pauza, PhDLaurie Barclay, MD Sept. 18, 2003 Editor's Note: It may be possible to use positron emission tomography (PET) scans to diagnose HIV reservoirs and... Read more » wasting
Posted by trnyack, 2 Replies
I was first diagnosed in May of 2001 when My Vl was 750,000 and my cd4 was 42, since then I have been taking a cocktail of Viracept, Epivir, Zerit, and Bactrim, My weight has dropped from around 160 lbs to just over 120, I am nioticing veins bulging...
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CDC says HAART is to blaim
Posted by Anonymous, 4 Replies
From 1992 through 2000, we observed a total of 7188deaths, 4870 (68%) during the pre-HAART period, and 2318 (32%) during the HAART period. Compared with the pre-HAART period, proportions of deaths with the following conditions Deaths from... Read more » Advertisement
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