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March 16, 2019March 16, 2019

Reaching HIV-1 Treatment Decisions Without a Patient’s Medical Records

Melanoma Media

Publication date: Mar 14, 2019 Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Guest: Jason M. Leider, MD, PhD To help physicians prepare for those times when they diagnose HIV-1 in treatment-naive patients, Dr. ... Read more

February 16, 2019February 16, 2019

Medical News Today How do you read a TB skin test

Tuberculosis News

Publication date: Jan 30, 2019 A purified protein derivative PPD test is a test that helps diagnose tuberculosis. It is a straightforward and painless test and the results can lead ... Read more

February 1, 2019February 1, 2019

Current Medical Management of Pulmonary Tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis Literature

Publication date: Feb 01, 2019 Tuberculosis (TB) remains a common cause of infection and disease in much of the world. The majority of disease occurs from reactivation months or years ... Read more

January 26, 2019January 26, 2019

Drug-resistance pattern of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from patients with pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis during 2006 to 2013 in a Korean tertiary medical center.

Tuberculosis Literature

Publication date: May 01, 2015 We evaluated the trend in the rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) over time, as well as the difference in the drug-resistance pattern between pulmonary tuberculosis ... Read more

January 1, 2019January 1, 2019

Impact on medical practice of accessing pharmaceutical records.

Precision Medicine Literature

Publication date: Jan 01, 2019 The pharmaceutical record system (PRS) is a French nationwide centralized electronic database shared among all community pharmacists listing all drugs dispensed by community pharmacists in ... Read more

May 23, 2019May 23, 2019

An artificial antigen-presenting cell delivering 11 immune molecules expands tumor antigen-specific CTLs in ex vivo and in vivo murine melanoma models.

Melanoma Literature

Publication date: May 21, 2019 Antigen-presenting cells expand antigen-specific T cells ex vivo and in vivo for tumor immunotherapy, but are time-consuming to generate and, as live cells, raise biosafety ... Read more

May 23, 2019May 23, 2019

CTL-mediated immunotherapy can suppress SHIV rebound in ART-free macaques.

Melanoma Literature

Publication date: May 21, 2019 A major barrier to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cure is the existence of viral reservoirs that lead to viral rebound following discontinuation of antiretroviral therapy ... Read more

May 23, 2019May 23, 2019

Intratumoral injection of dendritic cells overexpressing interleukin-12 inhibits melanoma growth.

Melanoma Literature

Publication date: May 21, 2019 The present study aimed to investigate the antitumor effects of an intratumoral injection of dendritic cells (DCs) overexpressing interleukin-12 (IL-12) on melanoma. DCs, isolated from ... Read more

May 23, 2019May 23, 2019

Fate-Mapping of GM-CSF Expression Identifies a Discrete Subset of Inflammation-Driving T Helper Cells Regulated by Cytokines IL-23 and IL-1β.

Multiple Sclerosis Literature

Publication date: May 21, 2019 Pathogenic lymphocytes initiate the development of chronic inflammatory diseases. The cytokine granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) (encoded by Csf2) is a key communicator between pathogenic lymphocytes ... Read more

May 23, 2019May 23, 2019

Lifestyle-based modifiable risk factors in multiple sclerosis: review of experimental and clinical findings.

Multiple Sclerosis Literature

Publication date: May 22, 2019 Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a lifelong inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease influenced by multiple lifestyle-based factors. We provide a narrative review of the effects of modifiable ... Read more