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Ironshore Inc. has promoted Steven Horton vice president, Financial Lines Manager, within Iron-Starr Excess Agency Ltd., based in Bermuda.
Horton joined Ironshore’s Pembroke Syndicate in London in 2008, where he served as a financial institutions underwriter. He joined Iron-Starr in Bermuda in 2010, responsible for underwriting and building the financial lines business throughout the Ironshore...

BMD Correlates with Number of HIV Regimens (CME/CE)
The number of HIV treatment regimens a patient undergoes appears to correlate with loss of bone mineral density (BMD), researchers reported here at the International Aids Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment, and Prevention....

Blood Test May Flag Impending COPD Flares (CME/CE)
Easily measured biomarkers of inflammation could give advance warning of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations, researchers said.
When COPD patients in a prospective Danish study had high levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), serum fibrinogen, and leukocyte count, their risk of experiencing a disease flare during the following year was increased by a factor of 2.5 (95% CI 1.8-3....

Switch to Quad Pill Maintained HIV Suppression (CME/CE)
HIV patients can be successfully switched from a twice-daily integrase inhibitor regimen to a once-daily, single-tablet regimen without loss of viral suppression, researchers reported here.
At 48 weeks, all 46 patients who switched from a raltegravir-based (Isentress) regimen to the four-drug, elvitegravir-cobicistat-tenofovir-emtricitabine (Stribild) pill were able to maintain undetectable viral load using the 50 copies/ml assay, said...