SMSaúde: Evaluating Mobile Phone Text Reminders to Improve Retention in HIV Care for Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy in Mozambique.

Objective: We evaluated whether regular mobile phone text reminders improved patients' retention in antiretroviral therapy (ART) care in Mozambique.

Design: SMSaúde was a randomized control trial of HIV-infected patients on ART who received regular text message reminder vs. standard of care at 3 public health facilities in Maputo Province, Mozambique.

Low activity of 13-cis-retinoic acid plus interferon alpha 2a in advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Retinoids and interferon alpha have shown synergistic activity against metastatic renal cell carcinoma in previous preclinical and clinical studies. Based on these results, we conducted a phase II trial of 13-cis-retinoic acid (cRA) at 1 mg/kg/dose interferon alpha2a (IFN) at initial dose of 9 MU three times a week. Thirty-one patients were entered, all evaluable for toxicity and 30 evaluable for response.