Suffering from disease is less painful...

Readers you are now thinking what rubbish I am sharing, but hold on let me complete the title: Suffering from disease is less painful than suffering with the consequences of the disease!

Yeah, nowadays I am suffering from high grade fever and chills and the pain of those distasteful medicines, the pain of that dysgeusia, and more importantly the pain of limited mobility! is somewhat more tearful for me than the disease itself.

As a pharmacist I myself can't resist to criticize the current dosage forms available for bedridden patients.

Not just the dosage form but also the dosage regime, I used to remember to take all the medications on time round the clock. But still as a human it is not a easy task.

Prevention is better than cure!

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HIV remission achieved in second patient

A second person has experienced sustained remission from HIV-1 after ceasing treatment, reports a paper led by researchers at UCL and Imperial College London. The case report, published in Nature and carried out with partners at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford, comes ten years after the first such case, known as the ‘Berlin Patient.’ Both patients were treated with stem cell transplants from donors carrying a genetic mutation that prevents expression of an HIV receptor CCR5. The subject of the new study has been in remission for 18 months after his antiretroviral therapy (ARV) was discontinued. The authors say it is too early to say with certainty that he has been cured of HIV, and will continue to monitor his condition. “At the moment the only way to treat HIV is with medications that suppress the virus, which people need to take for their entire lives, posing a particular challenge in developing countries,” said the study’s lead author, Pro...

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