Research Catalog

Title

The HIV drug book / Project Inform ; editor, Steven Petrow ; principal author, Brain Kearney .[and others].

Publication

New York : Pocket Books, [1998], ©1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

Project Inform (San Francisco, Calif.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89230527

Description

704 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Drug Therapy
• Catalogs, Drug as Topic
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• AIDS (Disease) > Chemotherapy
• HIV infections > Chemotherapy

Note

• "Project Inform's comprehensive, illustrated guide to the most-used HIV/AIDS treatments. The only reference that lists and describes all the drugs used by people with HIV, their effects and interactions."

Contents

• Introduction / Martin Delaney -- Preface / Donald I. Abrams -- Foreword / Joel Thomas -- Drug Profiles. Antibiotics. Anticancer Drugs. Antidiarrheal Drugs. Antifungal Drugs. Antihistamines. Antinausea/Antivomiting Drugs. Antiprotozoal Drugs. Antiseizure Drugs. Antiulcer Drugs. Antiviral Drugs. Antiwasting Treatments. Corticosteroids. Immune-Based Therapy. Neuropathy Drugs. Pain Relievers. Psychoactive Drugs. Vaccines -- Antiretroviral Strategies / Ben Cheng, Martin Delaney and Reena Lawande -- Maintaining Adherence to Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapies / Project Inform Staff -- Project Inform's Guide to the Management of Opportunistic Infections / Michael Wright / Projection Inform Staff -- You and Your Doctor / Sharon Lee -- How to Manage Medications / John Gilmore -- Developing a Weight Maintenance and Nutrition Strategy / Brenda Lein -- Alternative and Holistic Therapies / Charles Steinberg -- How to Avoid Fraud and Exploitation / Martin Delaney --
• Clinical Trials and Experimental Therapies / Steven G. Deeks and Paul A. Volberding -- Expanded Access, Compassionate Use, Parallel Track, and Treatment IND -- Project Inform's Drug Interaction Chart / Ben Cheng -- Project Inform's National HIV/AIDS Treatment Hotline -- Resource Guide: HIV/AIDS Prevention/Treatment/Information Resources -- Project Inform National Board of Governors -- Project Inform Board of Directors -- Project Inform Staff -- About Project Inform.

ISBN

0671014900 (pbk.) :

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries