Prolonged Nevirapine in Breast-Fed Babies Prevents HIV Infection but Leads to Drug-Resistant HIV • HIV/AIDS news • Jan 05 09 Babies born to HIV-positive mothers and given the antiretroviral drug nevirapine through the first six weeks of life to prevent infection via breast-feeding… HIV carriers shouldn’t marry: Malaysia politician • HIV/AIDS news • Dec 23 08 HIV carriers should not be allowed to marry, to avoid having sick children, a top Malaysian politician was quoted on Monday as saying. “Somebody who is very sick like that should… Beating the Number-One Killer in AIDS: Tuberculosis • HIV/AIDS news • Dec 10 08 The success of treating HIV/AIDS with antiretroviral therapy has been a good news, bad news proposition. Individuals with HIV and AIDS are living longer due to the success of antiretroviral… Study Sheds Light on Causes of HIV Dementia • HIV/AIDS news • Dec 04 08 A new study led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has clarified how two major variants of HIV differ in their ability to cause… World leaders urged to keep promises to fight AIDS • HIV/AIDS news • Dec 03 08 Several hundred African anti-AIDS campaigners paraded giant puppets of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy Tuesday to demand that they deliver promised funds for… Inspired to Act: Inside a Scientist’s Mission to Study HIV in Ethiopia • HIV/AIDS news • Dec 03 08 Some HIV patients suffer from terrible neurological disease. Then, there are others that never have any cognitive problems at all. The same virus, but… ACP recommends routine HIV screening for all patients • HIV/AIDS news • Dec 01 08 On World AIDS Day, the American College of Physicians (ACP) is giving doctors a call-to-action to routinely encourage HIV screening to all of their patients older than 13 years.… Selenium may slow march of AIDS • HIV/AIDS news • Nov 28 08 Increasing the production of naturally occurring proteins that contain selenium in human blood cells slows down multiplication of the AIDS virus, according to biochemists. “We have found that increasing the expression… A more rational and scientific approach to AIDS is needed, says expert • HIV/AIDS news • Nov 26 08 The Secretariat of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has lost valuable ground by ignoring for years the contribution of long-term concurrent relationships… Individuals with HIV Have Higher Risk of Non-AIDS Cancers • HIV/AIDS news • Nov 18 08 The risk of non-AIDS cancer is higher for individuals infected with HIV than for the general population, according to a meta-analysis presented here at the American Association… Chile says 512 may be infected in HIV scandal • HIV/AIDS news • Nov 14 08 Chile’s public health system may have failed to notify at least 512 people that they were infected with HIV, Health Minister Alvaro Erazo said on Thursday amid a… Researchers use chemical from medicinal plants to fight HIV • HIV/AIDS news • Nov 10 08 Like other kinds of cells, immune cells lose the ability to divide as they age because a part of their chromosomes known as a telomere becomes progressively shorter… New hope for HIV treatment: Cells exhausted from fighting HIV infection can be revitalized • HIV/AIDS news • Nov 10 08 Researchers at the University of Toronto and the University of California, San Francisco, have revealed new hope for HIV treatment with the discovery… New HIV-reduction initiative takes to the fields • HIV/AIDS news • Nov 05 08 Education has found its way onto the soccer fields of North Carolina – in the form of a social experiment that may have all the right ingredients to change… Study Finds Fears of HIV Transmission in Families with Infected Parent • HIV/AIDS news • Nov 04 08 Despite ongoing efforts to educate the public about HIV, a new study by researchers from UCLA, the RAND Corp., Harvard University and Children’s Hospital Boston has… Earlier HIV treatment may be better, study finds • HIV/AIDS news • Oct 28 08 Earlier treatment may be better when it comes to taking drugs for the AIDS virus, researchers reported on Sunday. Patients were more than 70 percent less likely to die… Rapid HIV testing in the ER boosts diagnoses, screening • HIV/AIDS news • Oct 26 08 One in every 50 people screened for a suspected sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the Emergency Department at Henry Ford Hospital was found to be infected with HIV… Body’s anti-HIV drug explained • HIV/AIDS news • Oct 13 08 Nature study reveals long-sought atomic structure of key enzyme and suggests new approach for drug development Humans have a built-in weapon against HIV, but until recently no one knew how to unlock its… HIV Drug Maraviroc Effective for Drug-Resistant Patients • HIV/AIDS news • Oct 02 08 As many as one quarter of HIV patients have drug resistance, limiting their treatment options and raising their risk for AIDS and death. Now, maraviroc, the first of a new… African-American blogs offer key health communications tool • HIV/AIDS news • Oct 02 08 Blogs allow African Americans to discuss HIV and AIDS in an unfiltered way that is both public and private, according to a Penn State researcher, and this exploration may lead… What HIV needs • HIV/AIDS news • Oct 02 08 The Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Burnham Institute for Medical Research today announced 295 host cell factors that are involved in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. The study, published in the Oct. 3… Urbanization in Africa at dawn of 20th century marked outbreak of HIV • HIV/AIDS news • Oct 01 08 New research indicates that the most pervasive global strain of HIV began spreading among humans between 1884 and 1924, suggesting that growing urbanization in colonial… New findings indicate HIV/AIDS pandemic began around 1900, earlier than previously thought • HIV/AIDS news • Oct 01 08 New research indicates that the most pervasive global strain of HIV began spreading among humans between 1884 and 1924, not during the 1930s, as previously… Indian website plays cupid for HIV/AIDS patients • HIV/AIDS news • Sep 29 08 Widowed at 30, HIV-positive Chhaya Tope had resigned herself to a life of loneliness, but a website for Indians afflicted with AIDS has given her another chance at love. Tope… Study Examines Cost-Effectiveness of HIV Monitoring Strategy in Countries With Limited Resources • HIV/AIDS news • Sep 23 08 In a computer-based model evaluating the benefits and costs of three types of HIV disease monitoring strategies, early initiation of antiretroviral therapy and monitoring using… Page 24 of 45 pages « First < 22 23 24 25 26 > Last » << Back to main
