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Patient-Centered System Recommended for Medical Billing

Simplification, consolidation, and real-time cost information could improve medical billing system
Video games can play a role in medical education

Video Games Offer Educational Methods for Med Students

Medical students can test their skills and have the freedom to fail and learn from mistakes as gamers
Two HIV-1 vaccines

Novel Vaccine Platform Shows Promise for HIV-1

HIV-1 vaccines with adenovirus and HIV-1 envelope A insert are well-tolerated, elicit immune responses
Tips for increasing patient adherence to treatment plans include patient engagement and addressing barriers to adherence

Tips Presented for Encouraging Treatment Adherence

Broad approach recommended, which includes patient engagement and addressing barriers

January 2016 Briefing – HIV & AIDS

Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in HIV & AIDS for January 2016. This roundup includes...
Mobile telephone text messaging may be a promising new way to improve adherence to medications for chronic diseases

Mobile Texts May Up Adherence to Meds for Chronic Illness

Meta-analysis shows mobile phone text reminders double the odds of medication adherence
Demand for medical office space for ambulatory care is at a high point and looks likely to continue increasing

Demand for Medical Office Space High and Increasing

Vacancy rate for medical office buildings 9.5 percent in third quarter of 2015; lowest since 2007
HIV resistance to the antiretroviral drug tenofovir (Viread) is common

High Level of Tenofovir Resistance for Those With HIV

Resistance affects almost two-thirds of those taking tenofovir in sub-Sahara Africa
The top four issues that will be promoted in state legislation in 2016 were discussed at the 2016 American Medical Association (AMA) State Legislative Strategy Conference

AMA Highlights Top Four Issues to Promote in State Legislation

Issues include physician-led team-based care, improving patient health, reducing rx drug overdose
Even when blood tests of HIV patients on antiretroviral drugs show no sign of the virus

HIV Can Replicate in Lymphoid Tissue Despite ART Success

Findings in patients who had no detectable virus in their blood