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• Sepsis: What you should know

  Patients battling any type of infection such as influenza, pneumonia, urinary tract infection or even food poisoning are at additional risk for sepsis — a serious complication that may lead to multiple organ failures and death, according to a recent sepsis overview published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Physicians should know the symptoms, risk factors, prevention measures, the difference between severe sepsis and septic shock and the various treatment options available. So, what is known about sepsis?

• FDA approves Prezcobix for treatment of HIV-1

  The FDA has approved an antiretroviral combination drug for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in adults, according to a press release. Darunavir/cobicistat (Prezcobix, Janssen Therapeutics), an HIV-1 protease inhibitor combined with a CYP3A4 inhibitor, is intended for treatment-naive and treatment-experienced adults without darunavir resistance-associated substitutions. It is a once-daily, fixed-dose tablet, containing 800 mg darunavir and 150 mg cobicistat, and is intended to be taken orally with other antiretrovirals and food.