A new article has explored further previously reported observations that prostate cancer appears to occur with lower incidence in men already diagnosed as positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) than in their HIV-negative, “normal” peers. … READ MORE …
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It is definitely news that may be of considerable health relevance to many, many men, so …
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has today approved the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test, which therefore becomes the very first over-the-counter test for HIV infection that allows patients to get their own HIV results immediately, without any need to go to a doctor for the test.
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A report from the University of California San Diego says that robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) appears to be a safe and effective treatment for localized prostate cancer in men who are HIV-positive but are taking highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and have undetectable viral loads (< 50). … READ MORE …
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Over the past 20 years, despite the fact that we have failed to develop any form of effective vaccine or other preventive form of treatment for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), we have become pretty good at managing this disease with a variety of highly selective antiretroviral drugs. What this means is that men who, at an earlier time, would have died from progressive disease, are now living with their disease quite long enough to be at risk for prostate cancer. (The same is presumably true for women and breast cancer.) … READ MORE …
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