AIDSmeds.com - CROI 2008 : HIV & Your Heart: Part I

At the 15th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston, David Evans talks with St. Luke’s Roosevelt’s Donald Kotler, MD about the role of inflammation in heart disease and surprising research on Ziagen and heart attacks.

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Our general CROI conference coverage was sponsored by Abbott Laboratories, Boehringer Ingelheim and Gilead Sciences.

Additional funding, to support news and video coverage of women's issues at CROI, was provided by Tibotec Therapeutics.

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