- Industria: Library & information science
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The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health care.
A federal Web site that contains reliable and up-to-date information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues for patients and their families and friends. The Web site is written in easy-to-understand language and includes videos and illustrations. MedlinePlus is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Industry:Health care
A federally funded agency that supports research to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care in the United States.
Industry:Health care
A federally funded clinical trials network. Many Micobicide Trials Network (MTN) trials focus on evaluating microbicides and other promising HIV prevention approaches.
Industry:Health care
A federally funded international clinical trials network that works towards finding an effective and safe HIV vaccine. HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) conducts clinical trials on preventive HIV vaccines and educates community members on the general science of HIV/AIDS vaccines and associated research methods.
Industry:Health care
A federally funded research program that studies how HIV infects humans and how the disease progresses to AIDS.
Industry:Health care
A federally funded study that determined that the risk of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV could be reduced by nearly 70% if the antiretroviral (ARV) drug zidovudine was given to a woman during pregnancy and labor and delivery and to the newborn. The Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group 076 (PACTG 076) study contributed greatly to preventing MTCT of HIV.
Industry:Health care
A federally funded, worldwide clinical trials network that develops and tests the safety and efficacy of primarily non-vaccine interventions designed to prevent the transmission of HIV.
Industry:Health care
A federally sponsored program that conducts HIV-related clinical research through a national network of community-based research units. A primary objective of Community Programs for Clinical Research on AIDS (CPCRA) is to involve community-based primary care providers and their patients in HIV/AIDS research.
Industry:Health care
A form of tuberculosis (TB) that is resistant to the two most effective antibiotics commonly used to cure TB infection (isoniazid and rifampin). People infected with multiple drug resistant-TB (MDR-TB) are at high risk for treatment failure. They are also at risk for further drug resistance, which can lead to life-threatening disease—extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB).
Industry:Health care
A fungal infection caused by overgrowth of the yeast Candida (usually Candida albicans) in moist areas of the body. Candidiasis can affect the mucous membranes of the mouth, vagina, and anus. In people with HIV, candidiasis of the bronchi, trachea, lungs, or esophagus is an AIDS-defining condition.
Industry:Health care
