Strategic Timing of Antiretroviral Treatment

Objective: To find out if the chance of developing a serious illness or of getting AIDS is less if patients start taking HIV medicines at a time when their CD4-positive cell count is still fairly high.

WASHINGTON, DC—“A cure for Alzheimer’s (AD) has not been found on my watch, but the momentum is there,” said Marcelle Morrison-Bogorad, PhD, at what might be her last opportunity to speak before Congress as the director of the National Institute on Aging’s neuroscience division.

Editor-in-Chief, Chester 'Trip' Buckenmaier III
MD, COL, MC, USA
As the first decade of the 21st century passes into history, Outlook 2011 provides a forum for federal medicine’s leadership to examine this past decade of unprecedented change and provide their vision of the future. Some of the highlights of this issue include perspectives from the service Surgeons General.

Dr Robert Petzel
Under Secretary for Health, Department of Veterans Affairs
The Veterans Health Administration, a part of the Department of Veterans Affairs, is in the midst of a major transformation in how we provide services to our veteran patients. We are creating a healthcare system that is, first and foremost, patient centered and characterized by team care.