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HIV Virus cure claimed

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          HIV AIDS cure has been claimed by the scientists     Recently on 6 march Scientists from London has been claimed that the patient is now HIV AIDS free. . This is the second time the patient was claimed to be virus free the first claim was made 12 years ago in 2007 were a patient named Timothy Ray Brown was the first claim in the history of research.      The third claim was made made 7 March at Retero-viruses & Opportunistic infections in Seattle in the U.S   A "Düsseldrof patient"  has no infection of HIV after the 3 months off of antiviral drugs. Only old fragments of viral genes that would be not able to multiply says Annemarie wensing a Virologist at university medical centre utrecht in Netherlands. She work on this case & says it would be similar case as that of two earlier cases of T.R Brown and London patient.             The deaths reported due to...

Formulas for calculating dose of drug

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Formulas for calculating dose of drug PATIENT  DOSE BY   AGE 1. Young formula (for upto 12 yrs old patient) Child age in years  ⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤ × Adult dose = patient dose Child age in years +12 2. Dilling's formula (for upto 20 yrs old patient) Patient age in years ⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤ × Adult dose = patient dose                 20 3. Cowling's  formula Age in years + 1 ⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤ × Adult dose = Patient dose              24               4. Fried's formula (for infants)  Age in months ⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤× Adult dose = Infant dose           150 5. Bastedo's formula  Age in years + 3 ⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤ × Adult dose = Patient dose              30 6. Gaubin's formula  Child dose by weight  1. Clark's formula Child weight (lb) ⏤⏤⏤⏤...