Computer models predict how patients will respond to HIV drugs without the need for resistance testing
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 21:00
in Health & Medicine
Computer models can predict how HIV patients whose drug therapy is failing will respond to a new treatment. Crucially for patients in poorer countries, the models do not require the results of expensive drug resistance tests to make their predictions. The study also showed that the models were able to identify alternative drug combinations that were predicted to work in cases where the treatment used in the clinic had failed, suggesting that their use could avoid treatment failure.