Results of a study demonstrate that computer models can predict how HIV patients whose drug therapy is failing will respond to a new treatment. The results were published online in the iJournal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy/i. Crucially for patients in poorer countries, the models do not require the results of expensive drug resistance tests to make their predictions. The study also showed that the models were able to identify alternative drug combinations ...
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Researchers have found that sea surface temperatures in the tropical South Atlantic Ocean can be used to accurately forecast, by up to four months, malaria epidemics thousands of miles away in northwestern India. Colder-than-normal July sea surface temperatures in the tropical South Atlantic are linked to both increased monsoon rainfall and malaria epidemics in the arid and semi-arid regions of northwest India, including the vast Thar desert, according to University ...
