US DEPT OF HHS: Anti-HIV treatment improves immune sysystem and fights sight-threatening eye infection.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-3 November 1999-US DEPT OF HHS: Anti-HIV treatment improves immune system and fights sight-threatening eye infection (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:021199 A combination of anti-HIV drugs appears to help rejuvenate the immune systems of people with AIDS and prevent progression of cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis, a potentially blinding AIDS-related eye complication.

A paper detailing these findings is published in the November 3, 1999 issue of the "Journal of the American Medical Association" ("JAMA"). Researchers at the Federal government's National Institutes of Health (NIH) found that all 14 patients with CMV retinitis enrolled in the study who took highly active antiretroviral therapy - called HAART - were able to stop taking their...