On its front page, the
San Francisco Chronicle 
(2/19, A1, Allday) reported that patients taking "one of the most
widely prescribed drugs to treat HIV infection increase their risk of
kidney damage by up to 34 percent every year," according to a study of
more than "10,000 HIV-positive veterans" published in the journal AIDS.
The study involved "10,841 HIV-infected men and women who started
antiretroviral therapy from 1997 to 2007; 4,303 of those patients took
tenofovir at some point." The researchers
found that "among those who took the drug, the risk of developing one of
those signs of kidney damage increased by 11 to 34 percent each year,
and their risk remained elevated even after they stopped taking it."
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