The annual cost of providing HIV treatment and care in the UK could be as high as Â£758 million by 2013, investigators suggest in the online journal PLoS One. When the researchers included social care into their calculations, the 2013 cost was estimated to be well over Â£1000 million.
Chlorpheniramine maleate is part of a class of drugs called antihistamines. Specifically, it is an H1 receptor antagonist. This means that it blocks a specific type of histamine receptor in the body known as H1 receptors.
Î²-hexachlorocyclohexane (Î²-HCH) is an organochloride which is one of the isomers of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH). It is a byproduct of the production of the insecticide lindane (Î³-HCH). It is typically constitutes 5-14% of technical grade lindane, though it has not been produced or used in the United States for more than 20 years, i.e. since 1985.