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Vitamin A and beta-carotene supplements are unsafe for HIV-positive women who breastfeed because they may boost the excretion of HIV in breast milk---thereby increasing the chances of transmitting the infection to the child, a pair of new studies suggest. Epidemiologist Eduardo Villamor of the University of Michigan School of Public Health says transmission of HIV through ...
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Vitamin A increases the presence of the HIV virus in breast milk
Thursday, August 26, 2010
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રesearchers identify two FDA approved drugs that may fight HIV
Sunday, August 22, 2010
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Researchers at the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center have identified two drugs that, when combined, may serve as an effective treatment for HIV.
The two drugs, decitabine and gemcitabine – both FDA approved and currently used in pre-cancer and cancer therapy – were found to eliminate HIV infection in the mouse model by causing the virus to mutate itself to death – an outcome ...
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