You are here : health.am > HIV/AIDS Health Center > HIV/AIDS news HIV/AIDS news Interruptions in HIV therapy common in ex-inmates • HIV/AIDS news • Feb 25 09 Results of a new study show that major interruptions in HIV drug treatment occur after release from prison. Within 60 days of release from prison, just 30 percent of… Gene Therapy Shows Promise as Weapon Against HIV • HIV/AIDS news • Feb 23 09 A new UCLA AIDS Institute study has found that gene therapy can be developed as a safe and active technique to combat HIV. Researchers involved in this first-of-its-kind… U.S. AIDS cases cluster in cities, report finds • HIV/AIDS news • Feb 23 09 Most Americans infected with the AIDS virus live in cities, with 10 states accounting for 71 percent of cases, according to new data from the U.S. Centers for… AIDS top killer disease in China last year: govt. • HIV/AIDS news • Feb 17 09 The AIDS virus became the top deadly infectious disease in China last year for the first time, killing 6,897 people in the first nine months of 2008,… Radioimmunotherapy Promising Treatment for HIV Infection and Viral Cancers • HIV/AIDS news • Feb 16 09 Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have piggybacked antibodies onto radioactive payloads to deliver doses of radiation that selectively target and destroy microbial and… AIDS gels may work, but weakness found in cocktails • HIV/AIDS news • Feb 09 09 Gels to protect women from infection with the AIDS virus have shown hints that they may work, researchers said on Monday. But two studies show that men who… U.S. blacks continue to bear the brunt of HIV/AIDS • HIV/AIDS news • Feb 06 09 In the United States, African American men and women continue to be disproportionately affected by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, the director of the National Institute… Common risk factors cited in HIV-infected black men • HIV/AIDS news • Feb 05 09 A study of HIV-infected individuals in Jackson, Mississippi, revealed that many young, black men who have sex with men had three risk behaviors in common. According to findings reported… Kidney Transplant Survival Can be Long-Term for People with HIV • HIV/AIDS news • Jan 20 09 A Johns Hopkins study finds that HIV-positive kidney transplant recipients could have the same one-year survival rates for themselves and their donor organs as those without HIV,… HIV infection risk dependent on blood type: Swedish researchers • HIV/AIDS news • Jan 13 09 The risk of being infected by HIV may be determined by the presence of a molecule in a person’s blood cells, according to a discovery made by Swedish… Researchers identify potential new weapon in battle against HIV infection • HIV/AIDS news • Jan 12 09 Researchers have discovered a potentially important new resistance factor in the battle against HIV: blood types. An international team of researchers from Canadian Blood Services, The Hospital… 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… Page 22 of 40 pages « First < 20 21 22 23 24 > Last » << Back to main
