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 ... | |
 Clues to future evolution of HIV come from African green monkeys July 16, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Monkey viruses related to HIV may have swept across Africa more recently than previously thought, according to new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson. | |
Ultra deep sequencing identifies HIV drug resistance at early stage June 16, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Rare, previously undetectable drug-resistant forms of HIV have been identified by Yale School of Medicine researcher Michael Kozal, M.D., using an innovative genome sequencing technology that quickly detects rare viral mutations. | |
Research findings open new front in fight against AIDS virus April 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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A research group supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has uncovered a new route for attacking the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that may offer a way to circumvent problems with drug resistance. In findings ... | |
AIDS resistance secret may be in blood February 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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U.S. scientists say the absence of a specific marker in the blood and tissues of certain monkeys might be part of the key to understanding AIDS resistance. | |
AIDS drugs reveal leprosy infections October 24, 2006 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Experts in New York and around the world have said antiretroviral treatments have revealed hidden cases of leprosy in some AIDS patients. | |
Study: U.S. rule is hurting HIV fight July 24, 2007 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A new study suggests the United States is hurting the fight against the human immunodeficiency virus with its anti-prostitution rule. | |
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 ... | |
Scientist denies herbal cure for AIDS April 28, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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A Senegalese scientist has contradicted a claim by Gambian President Yayha Jammeh, who said he had found a cure for AIDS. | |
Selenium supplements may contribute to reduced HIV viral load January 22, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Taking daily selenium supplements appears to increase the level of the essential mineral in the blood and may suppress the progression of viral load in patients with HIV infection, according to an article in the January 22 ... | |
Scientists image a single HIV particle being born May 25, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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A mapmaker and a mathematician may seem like an unlikely duo, but together they worked out a way to measure longitude – and kept millions of sailors from getting lost at sea. Now, another unlikely duo, a virologist and a ... | |
Mindfulness meditation slows progression of HIV, study shows July 24, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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CD4+ T lymphocytes, or simply CD4 T cells, are the "brains" of the immune system, coordinating its activity when the body comes under attack. They are also the cells that are attacked by HIV, the devastating virus that causes ... | |
L.A. billboards say AIDS a 'gay' disease October 02, 2006 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Stunning passersby, billboards have sprung up around Southern California declaring, "HIV is a gay disease," adding the tag line "Own It; End It." | |
Male circumcision overstated as prevention tool against AIDS June 20, 2007 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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In new academic research published today in the online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal PLoS ONE, male circumcision is found to be much less important as a deterrent to the global AIDS pandemic than previously ... | |
Australian researchers say 'natural condom' could stop HIV June 04, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Australian researchers said Wednesday they had developed a means of producing a "natural condom" which could prevent the spread of AIDS. | |
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