Taking Serostim When You're Hiv Positive

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Surgery vs. Serostim

I am 48 years old, HIV-positive since at least 1987, and have been very well, thanks to good medicine and a good doctor.My neck size has been increasing over the past few years, and in addition, I have a slight "buffalo hump." I usually...

Response from Graeme Moyle, M.D.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

Surgery is the more definitive option. As you rightly say, the reported benefits of serostim are good but often transient. The results I have seen from surgical 'debulking' are in fact rather good, although partial recurrence is reported.... Read more »

Serostim side effects and Atripla

About 2 years ago I went to my Doctor and he told me I was HIV Pos, he remitted me to a specialist... Read more »

Response from Gerald Pierone, M.D. »

Wasting, and want to take Serostim

Hello, I have been positive for around 5 years, In that time I have wasted considerably. I have... Read more »

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Wall Street Journal Examines Law Enforcement Officials' Efforts to Curb Black Market Sales of Serostim

The Wall Street Journal on Monday examined U.S. law enforcement officials' efforts to curb black-market sales of an AIDS medication "that has found an underground recreational use as a bodybuilding drug." Serostim, which is a growth hormone, is... Read more »

An Overview of Somatropin (Serostim, Genotropin)

soe-ma-TROE-pin Brand Name: Genotropin, Serostim Other Name(s): Growth hormone (human), Human growth hormone, Humatrope, Norditropin, Nutropin, Nutropin AQ, Somatropina, Zorbtive, r-hGH Drug Class: Opportunistic Infection and Other Drugs ... Read more »

New York Serono Sales Rep Charged With Bribing Physicians to Prescribe AIDS Wasting Drug Serostim

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday brought charges in U.S. District Court in Boston against a former sales director for Swiss biotechnology company Serono , alleging that he bribed doctors in New York City to write prescriptions for the company's... Read more »

When Medi-Cal Says "No" to Serostim

Medi-Cal recipients can obtain Serostim, a human-growth hormone which is prescribed to control HIV wasting syndrome, as one of the drugs covered by the program. Because HIV wasting syndrome is not simply a decrease in body weight, but in fact... Read more »

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