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Genetic Testing Helps Tailor Efavirenz Dose in HIV-Infected Patients
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Certain patients with HIV infection who are carriers of cytochrome P450 2B6 6* and *26 can successfully reduce their efavirenz dose to diminish adverse effects but still maintain high plasma concentrations of the drug, Japanese researchers report in the November 1st issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Reuters Health Information
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Inflammation Could Explain Why Poor, Uneducated Suffer More CVD
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The first US study to look at the associations of socioeconomic position with inflammatory markers in a diverse population has found that low-income, less-well-educated people have higher levels of interleukin-6 and C-reactive protein than their richer, better-educated counterparts. Heartwire
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Gene Variants Linked to Language Disorders
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Variants in CNTNAP2, a gene expressed in the developing cortex that encodes a neurexin, are associated with specific language impairment in children, according to an Online First report issued by The New England Journal of Medicine on November 5th. Reuters Health Information
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