Researchers disprove long-standing belief about HIV treatment July 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have disproved a long-standing clinical belief that the hepatitis C virus slows or stunts the immune system's ability to restore itself after HIV patients are treated ... | |
 Gorillas harbour AIDS-like virus, says study November 08, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Gorillas appear to be widely infected by a close relation to the AIDS virus, according to a study that appears on Thursday in the British journal Nature. | |
Personalized immunotherapy to fight HIV/AIDS August 15, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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For a long time, the main obstacle to creating an AIDS vaccine has been the high genetic variability of the HIV virus. Dr. Jean-Pierre Routy and his team from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre ... | |
Rare case explains why some infected with HIV remain symptom free without antiretroviral drugs August 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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AIDS experts at Johns Hopkins say they have compelling evidence that some people with HIV who for years and even decades show extremely low levels of the virus in their blood never progress to full-blown AIDS and remain symptom ... | |
'Silencing' HIV with small bits of RNA August 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Researchers have shown that they can effectively tackle HIV-1 with small bits of gene-silencing RNA by delivering them directly to infected T cells, the major targets of the virus. While earlier studies had shown such a strategy ... | |
Study shows why treatment isn't effective for HIV August 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
University of Minnesota researchers have answered a key question as to why antiretroviral therapy isn't effective in restoring immunity in HIV-infected patients. | |
How 'hidden mutations' contribute to HIV drug resistance July 31, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
One of the major reasons that treatment for HIV/AIDS often doesn't work as well as it should is resistance to the drugs involved. Now, scientists at McGill University have revealed how mutations hidden in previously ignored ... | |
New therapy for HIV treatment July 29, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Millions of people world-wide who have contracted a highly resistant strain of the HIV virus could benefit from a new drug to treat the infection. | |
 Anti-HIV therapy boosts life expectancy more than 13 years July 25, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The life expectancy for patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has increased by more than 13 years since the late 1990s thanks to advancements in antiretroviral therapy, according to researchers ... | |
Lancet study blasts Swiss stance on HIV protection July 25, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Doctors have unleashed a counterblast to a Swiss panel that said patients with HIV whose infection is curbed by drugs do not pass on the AIDS virus during unprotected sex. | |
Viral recombination another way HIV fools the immune system July 21, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
When individuals infected with HIV become infected with a second strain of the virus, the two viral strains can exchange genetic information, creating a third, recombinant strain of the virus. It is known that the presence ... | |
HIV conquers immune system faster than previously realized July 18, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
New research into the earliest events occurring immediately upon infection with HIV-I shows that the virus deals a stunning blow to the immune system earlier than was previously understood. According to scientists at Duke ... | |
US activists praise Senate for lifting HIV travel ban July 18, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Gay advocates and commentators have hailed a vote by US senators to repeal a travel ban on HIV-positive visitors or immigrants to the United States. | |
NIAID will not move forward with the PAVE 100 HIV Vaccine Trial July 17, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
After soliciting and considering broad input from the scientific and HIV advocacy communities, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has determined ... | |
Genetic cause of innate resistance to HIV/AIDS July 16, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Some people may be naturally resistant to infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The results of a study conducted by Dr. Nicole Bernard of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) bring ... | |
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