MEDSCAPE's Respiratory Care MedPulse ®
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The Body has the most extensive conference coverage.
HIV and Hepatitis.com has perhaps the most extensive coverage of AIDS and hepatitis treatment news on the Web.
Medscape has many excellent medical resources. (You need to register and choose a password to use this site, but the registration is free.)
NATAP (National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project) has valuable information, though some of it has been technical and hard to read.
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Treatment News from Recent Conferences: Finding Web Reports, Issue 373; James, John S.; 10/26/2001
- AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)
is a disease in which the cellular immune system is disabled that is caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The HIV virus destroys
a specific white blood cell, the helper T-lymphocyte or T-cell. Without the T-cell, the cellular immune system is completely disabled. Those infected with the HIV virus eventually develop diseases that are rare in individuals with normal immune systems. These include Pneumocystitis carinii and cytomegalovirus (CMV) pneumonias and Kaposi's sarcoma,
a rare skin cancer usually affecting the legs of elderly people. HIV-infected people are considred to have AIDS once they have developed one of these otherwise rare diseases. Back
