What Are The Medication-Based Treatment Options For Opioid Addiction
Yesterday morning, I was seeing patients with a colleague of mine, a physician and medical director of a ...
Intravenous Drug Use of Opioids and HIV transmission: Opioids 101
Opioids are natural and synthetic derivatives of opium, a compound produced by the poppy plant. Opium and its ...
A Real HIV Cure? Here’s What We Know…
The Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) is widely recognized as the leading research conference for HIV ...
Medical Racism & The Impact On Health Outcomes: Where does it start?
Some recent events have prompted to change focus slightly. In early February 2019, it was revealed that the ...
Medication Adherence: The Achille’s Heel of U=U
One of the highlights of 2018 that I wrote about last year was the additional research that enforced ...
Why We Haven’t Cured HIV Infection: A Major Hurdle To Overcome
A little more than twenty years ago, two developments occurred around the same time that tremendously advanced our ...
Closing Out 2018 With A Review Of Some Of Our Successes In HIV Medicine
As we end 2018, I like to take a look back and review some of the good things ...
On World AIDS Day 2018, Is there a cure for HIV in sight?
On December 1, 2018, we celebrate the 30th World AIDS Day. For the last 3 decades, this day ...
The 22nd International AIDS Conference: What You Need To Know
The International AIDS Conference is a huge conference that is unique in that it brings together scientists, clinicians, ...
A Crash is Inevitable: The HIV epidemic and Drug Addiction
In the previous article, I tried to shed some light on this current “Opioid Epidemic”, the social and ...
Major Health Epidemic Spells Double-Trouble for HIV-Infected Individuals
While we have been discussing the microbiome, we have a golden opportunity to show how it can influence ...
The Intersection of Two Epidemics: Not a “Color-blind” Discussion
In the early 80’s, the medical community was stunned by a growing epidemic of severe complications of immune ...
HIV and The Gut Microbiome: Prebiotics and Probiotics
In the previous article, I introduced the microbiome. To review, recall that our bodies are essentially a reservoir ...
Importance of the Microbiome in HIV Prevention and HIV Disease (Pt 1)
So you’ve just finished a hot, relaxing shower with your favorite shower gel and then you brush your ...
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