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...doctors are hoping it stays that way. But ARVs are powerful drugs, and scientists are still learning what taking them for decades does to developing minds and bodies. Dr. Rohan Hazra at the National Institutes of Health has been following patients like Daniels since their birth. He is on the lookout for behavioral changes that could be the legacy of drug effects on the central nervous system. "We are beginning to see subtle but profound impacts on the brain," he says. "Among teenagers infected [at birth], there seem to be high rates of ADHD, psychiatric disorders and cognitive problems...
...number of HIV-positive American kids dwindles, it's getting harder to study the long-term effects of these drugs on children in the U.S. Says Hazra: "These are questions that will only be answered now in the developing world," where newly infected babies are still available, unfortunately, in huge numbers. But with the answers they provide, perhaps that current wave of young patients can be the last...
...just gave [Hazra and his employees] contact information for [University Health Services], because they would be more able to help set up anything like this," said Chatterjee...
Formerly a journalist and a member of an Indian rock band, Hazra has taught the breathing course and is currently on a speaking tour of the East Coast...
...Hazra is described by the foundation as an internationally respected teacher of stress management, and says he draws crowds of 200,000 to his appearances in India...