In a press release issued on September 16, 2020, pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Co. announced some encouraging preliminary results from an ongoing clinical trial of their ... Read More
Another HIV Cure?
The 23rd International AIDS Conference, originally scheduled for San Francisco/Oakland in late July was held virtually in early July 2020 (Yuck! I’m getting sick of virtual ... Read More
New Long-acting HIV Drug Shows Promising Results in Early Clinical Trials
Report from the 27th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) 2020 OK, so you all are probably wondering if I’m obsessed with long-acting therapies ... Read More
Long-acting Medications for HIV Treatment and Prevention
Ok, you’re probably tired of me promising that long-acting antiretroviral therapy would soon be available through your doctor. The product I’ve been talking about the most is a ... Read More
“Plandemic”… Fact or Fallacy?
A couple of weeks ago, a friend sent me a link to the “Plandemic” video and asked for my medical and scientific assessment. I had not heard of it before and I saw that it was an ... Read More
If There Were a Vaccine To Protect Against COVID -19, Would You Get It ? (Part 2)
The goal of a vaccine is to give the immune system a head start in fighting an infectious organism so that the infection is prevented. There are many ways to develop a vaccine but ... Read More
If There Were A Vaccine To Protect Against COVID-19, Would You Get It? (Part 1)
By now, it has become abundantly clear that black people have suffered disproportionate mortality due to COVID-19. For example, in Chicago, while blacks made up 42% of cases, they ... Read More
Remdesivir for COVID-19: A glimmer of Hope? By Dr. Keith Crawford
Remdesivir was first developed by Gilead Pharmaceuticals and studied for treating Ebola infections. Since then, studies in the laboratory showed that it had potent ... Read More
Chloroquine/Hydroxychloroquine: Is there any basis to the hype with COVID-19?
Since my last article discussing experimental treatments for COVID-19, we have results from a clinical trial conducted in China on the effectiveness of Kaletra (published ... Read More
Can HIV Infection Provide Clues to Curing COVID-19 (SARS-2 coronavirus infection)?
Since the first article I wrote addressing the coronavirus epidemic a couple of weeks ago (posted February 26, 2020 Coronavirus section of Health Conditions), some things ... Read More
Coronavirus Alert: Am I At Risk?
By now, everyone who doesn’t live in a cave has heard about the new coronavirus epidemic, with increasing numbers of infections and also increasing numbers of deaths. While there ... Read More
Improving The Lives Of HIV Patients
The Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections held in early March in Seattle, Washington, featured over a thousand scientific research presentations primarily focused ... Read More
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 ability to treat and manage HIV infection. First, we finally had ... Read More
Do You Know Your HIV/AIDS Status?
Have you had your Flu shot this year? What was your last total cholesterol and LDL level ? Have you had your scheduled mammogram to screen for Breast cancer? Have you had a ... Read More