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ATLANTA (AP) - Patients with the AIDS virus are better off if they start taking powerful medicines early, rather than waiting for symptoms of their disease to appear, new research suggests.
A new study calls into question guidelines that say patients should delay taking the toxic drugs to stave off treatment-related complications.
The research focused on "drug cocktail" combinations of three or more drugs. The regimens have become a standard treatment in the last decade, but are associated with such complications as kidney failure and a hand- and foot-numbing condition called peripheral neuropathy.
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