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It’s Never Too Late to Play the Cello

Vera Jiji, 93, at her home in New York. She picked the cello back up after about 40 years when she retired from teaching at 62. “It has given me a way to communicate without using words,” she said. “It gave me a next step in life.”Credit…Justin J Wee for The New York Times It’s… Read More »

Spanish studies highlight scale of late presentation and its consequences for treatment

Just under half (44.6%) of participants in a Spanish cohort of people living with HIV between 2004 and 2018 were late presenters, according to a recent study published in PLoS ONE. Another study of the same cohort, published in AIDS, found that HIV treatment is less effective at improving immune response but equally as effective… Read More »

It’s never too late for physicians to change directions and land new jobs

Paul Pender, MD | Physician | February 19, 2021 Changing direction once established is not easy, but it can be rewarding. I recently read the essay on KevinMD (“How this physician escaped the system“) from a physician who shifted gears to her own business after some discouraging experiences in “the system.” During her residency, her… Read More »

Almost half of HIV diagnoses in Europe are late, with serious impact on health outcomes

Almost half of HIV diagnoses in Europe are among people whose immune systems have already been seriously weakened by HIV, an international team of investigators report in BMC Infectious Diseases. Just under half a million people, half of them in Russia, are estimated to have received a late HIV diagnosis between 2010 and 2016. Late… Read More »