- Industry: 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.
Protection against disease caused by infectious microorganisms or by other foreign substances. There are two main types of immunity: innate and acquired.
Industry:Health care
Protein fibers found in semen that can trap HIV and help HIV attach to cells. Semen-derived enhancer of virus infection (SEVI) increases the risk of sexual transmission of HIV.
Industry:Health care
Raised, swollen, itchy areas on the skin or mucous membranes, usually caused by an allergic reaction to a drug or food.
Industry:Health care
Raised, swollen, itchy areas on the skin or mucous membranes, usually caused by an allergic reaction to a drug or food.
Industry:Health care
Regional centers that conduct education and training programs for health care providers who treat people living with HIV/AIDS. Training is targeted to providers who serve minority populations, the homeless, rural communities, prisoners, community and migrant health centers, and Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program-funded sites. AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETCs) serve all 50 states and many U.S. territories.
Industry:Health care
Relating to or involving the heart and blood vessels. Use of some antiretroviral (ARV) drugs may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Industry:Health care
Removal of tissue, cells, or fluid from the body for examination under a microscope. Biopsies are used to diagnose disease.
Industry:Health care
Resistance to one or more drugs that occurs as a result of previous exposure to a similar drug. For example, HIV resistance to one non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) drug may produce resistance to all drugs in the NNRTI drug class, including drugs never used. Excluding all drugs in a drug class from an HIV regimen (drug sparing) is a strategy used to prevent cross resistance.
Industry:Health care
Resistant to treatment. For example, a refractory disease or condition is one that is not responding to treatment.
Industry:Health care
