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Top Stories         Friday, 25 July 2008

With antiretrovirals, a 20-year old HIV patient can live another 43 years.
Elderly helped by home care packages
Older people benefit from government-funded community aged care schemes because these help maintain their health and independence and delay admission to nursing homes, a major Australian study has shown.
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Antiretrovirals normalise HIV life expectancy
Since it was first developed just over 10 years ago, combination antiretroviral therapy has dramatically increased the life expectancy for HIV patients in high income countries, according to a study
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Online doctors stalked and sued
As increasing numbers of doctors go online, they are being warned about the dangers of unwittingly breaching patient confidentiality and also the risks of being stalked by patients.
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