Clinical Programs News
September 21, 2009
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Aidsmap
People with HIV who have developed resistance to 3TC (lamivudine) can still achieve viral load suppression using boosted protease inhibitor regimens that include 3TC as part of the nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) "backbone", researchers reported this week at the 49th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) in San Francisco.
July 4, 2009
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Kelowna.com
It's been nearly five years since Vancouver artist Tiko Kerr reluctantly stepped into the national spotlight to become the modern face of AIDS in Canada.
April 24, 2009
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SFUnews
The Vancouver Sun told readers how three SFU researchers discovered exactly how extracts from a South Asian plant work to lower blood glucose levels in type-2 diabetics.
August 1, 2008
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CBC
B.C. researcher Robert Hogg knew that a frequently used cocktail of drugs was helping people with HIV live longer than expected. He was also well aware of studies, regional in focus, that showed drugs taken in combination were keeping AIDS at bay.
July 28, 2008
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News-Medical.net
According to Canadian researchers a cocktail which is a combination of HIV drugs can give AIDS patients an average of 13 years additional life.
July 25, 2008
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themoneytimes.com (India)
A team of UK researchers, led by Robert Hogg of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS in Vancouver, suggested in their research Thursday that cocktails of HIV drugs help patients live an average of 13 years longer.
February 24, 2008
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The Province
Hundreds of people with HIV are dying without ever taking the drug cocktails that could prolong their lives for decades -- and those most at risk are the poor, the homeless, the mentally ill and the drug-addicted.
February 23, 2008
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The Record
Forty per cent of the people who died of HIV-AIDS in British Columbia never accessed life-saving treatment even though it was free, according to a new study released yesterday.
February 22, 2008
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The Canadian Press
Forty per cent of the people who died of HIV-AIDS in British Columbia never accessed life-saving treatment even though it was free, according to a new study released Friday.
May 14, 2007
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The John Hopkins University Gazette
Pharmacy data can be used as a simple low-cost tool for monitoring a patient's adherence to HIV therapy in resource-limited areas, according to a study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and other organizations.
May 2, 2007
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Vancouver Sun
The human immunodeficiency virus could have killed Vancouver artist Tiko Kerr 20 years ago, just as it claimed so many other promising lives.
April 5, 2007
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Vancouver Sun
Advances in antiretroviral drug therapy have added about 15 years to the lives of people starting treatment for HIV/AIDS in British Columbia today, compared with those who were diagnosed in the early 1990s, a new study by the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS shows.
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