Short-course therapy may be as effective as long-course therapy for patients with Lyme disease

Long-term survival rates without treatment failure for patients with Lyme disease treated with antibiotics were about 99%, regardless of the duration of therapy, according to results of a recent study.

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Competing priorities: ART adherence presents the health care community with a spectrum of challenges

A diverse array of issues, some of which are contradictory, surrounds the study of adherence to antiretroviral therapy among patients with HIV/AIDS.

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