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just out ▼ juno 6, 1997 ▼ 13 SMUT! COMIX! WEIRDNESS! That’s right, kids, you won’t find any books filled with big words here at CounterMedia. Too hard on the brain! What you will find is Portland's best assortment of: o Old gay physique mags and nudie mags o Gay photo and art erotica o Hard-to-find gay mags (T*R*A*S*H, STH) o Erotic gay fiction and non-fiction Plus, of course, the usual stuff on (yawn) body piercing, serial killers, drugs and freaks. CounterMedia: One-stop shopping for Portland’s depraved! 927 SW Oak (half a block from Powell’s). 11-7 M-Sat, 12-6 Sun. Research roundup HIV/AIDS study results released recently offer what amounts to a fine tuning of current knowledge ▼ by Bob Roehr series o f articles and presentations at meetings in early May has deepened our understanding o f HIV but offers no significant departure from what has been known for months or years. The knowledge will have an impact on ing therapies and preventative vaccines, but will not immediately affect existing standards o f care. Three articles in the current issue o f Nature looked at the effect o f protease inhibitor-based combination therapy in reducing levels o f HI V in blood and tissue. Drs. David Ho and Alan Perelson demonstrated a two-stage pattern o f reduction of HIV levels. They theorized that the level of infec tion could be reduced to zero in 2.3 to 3.1 years. Dr. Ashley Haase showed that HIV activity in the blood mirrors that in tissue. The data from both A The researchers said the likely explanation is that women have a lower average body weight than men and so the same dose results in the higher concentration in their blood. This points to the need for more research and develop clinical trials involving women, and also for greater attention to weight-specific dosing. It is possible that people o f both genders are on regimens that provide a less than optimal concentration of drug throughout the body, while others are being ex posed to higher than necessary doses and toxicities. The National Cancer Institute held a meeting primarily for asking questions, not answering them. HIV researchers long have speculated that with success in extending survival, they would see the emergence of medical problems such as cancers, which take a longer time to develop. r w ' f f f f'ffT v "•rw W WW COMMON CONCERNS Long Distance Classic Value, Uncommon Vision v, For Onl]j r 12 e/m in . a n y w h e r ^ in th e U .S. ed! Ca lflpT C ards available. ed to A ID S-related charities! 2 -S A V E When an ordinary Realtor sim ply won't do... studies had been presented earlier at meetings but was only now being published. More troubling news came from Tae-W ook Chun and Robert F. Silicianoof the Johns Hopkins School o f Medicine. They showed that even after the live virus has been cleared, in a small percent age of cells fragments of HIV remain as both loose intra-cellular particles and sometimes as pieces integrated into cell DNA. W hile these shards do not have the capacity to reproduce and hence spread the virus, it is theoretically possible that under certain circum stances they may recom bine or grow into complete virus to again chal lenge the body with HIV infection. This could create additional difficulty in achieving a “cure” for HIV. Meanwhile, at the National Conference on W omen and HIV, held in Pasadena, Calif., re searchers from Pharmacia & Upjohn, the maker o f delavirdine, reported that women on a com bi nation therapy o f delavirdine and AZT had a 1.8 higher trough concentration o f the drugs in their blood than did men. There is no indication that men and women metabolize the drug differently. Some evidence does point to a higher probability o f long-term HIV survivors developing certain types of cancer, but the extent of the problem is not clearly understood. A major fault lies with data collection. Cancers are often not reported or correlated with HIV. The Centers for Disease Control, the nation’s principal epidem iological data collection system, only records cancer if is part of the initial AIDS diagno sis. And its definition of AIDS— a CD4 count below 200 and certain opportunistic infections— has become of limited value. It indicates either that a person is unaware of his or her serostatus and shows up at an emergency room with an AIDS- defining illness, or that therapy has failed. A further limitation is the time lag in the C D C ’s reporting of data. Its figures for 1995 were released only in November 1996. Finally, there are the changing dynamics in standards of care, of when and how to intervene, and with new thera pies. 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