How STDs increase the risk of becoming infected with HIV September 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Individuals who have a sexually transmitted disease (e.g., genital herpes, gonorrhea, syphilis, and chlamydia) and women with yeast and bacterial vaginal infections have an increased risk of becoming infected with HIV if ... | |
Scientists identify genetic link that may neutralize HIV September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Scientists from the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology (GIVI) and the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have identified a gene that may influence the production of antibodies that ... | |
New 'trick' allows HIV to overcome a barrier to infection September 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Researchers have discovered a new 'trick' that allows HIV to overtake resting T cells that are normally highly resistant to HIV infection, according to a report in the September 5th issue of the journal Cell. The binding ... | |
HIV patients at greater risk for bone fractures August 28, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
HIV-infected patients have a higher prevalence of fractures than non HIV-infected patients, across both genders and critical fracture sites according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal ... | |
Study reveals gap in HIV testing knowledge among college students August 27, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Most college students understand how they can prevent the transmission of HIV but are less knowledgeable about HIV testing, according to a new University of Georgia study. | |
ABC-transporters expressed on endothelial cell membranes efflux anti-HIV drugs August 26, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Researchers at Tulane University Medical Center in New Orleans (USA) have discovered that drug-efflux pumps, belonging to the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter family, are constitutively expressed on vascular endothelial ... | |
 Chemical liberated by leaky gut may allow HIV to infect the brain August 18, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
In up to 20 percent of people infected with HIV, the virus manages to escape from the bloodstream and cross into the brain, resulting in HIV-associated dementia and other cognitive disorders. Now, scientists ... | |
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 ... | |
Women in India abused by husbands at far greater risk for HIV infection August 12, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
India is home to the third-largest number of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases in the world and, as in the U.S. and many African nations, the rate of infection among women continues to rise faster than that among men. ... | |
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 ... | |
Researchers to begin study aimed at helping Latino HIV patients August 10, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center will soon begin researching how a lack of trust in formal medicine is contributing to disproportionately higher mortality rates in Latino HIV patients than in white ... | |
'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 offers new insight on HIV transmission risk of men who have sex with men August 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Approximately half of all new HIV infections in the United States result from the sexual risk behaviors of men who have sex with men. Now, a new study led by a researcher at The Miriam Hospital provides additional insight ... | |
Study sees need for standardized evaluation of antibody response to HIV-1 August 07, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
U.S. Military HIV Research Program (USMHRP) researcher Victoria R. Polonis, Ph.D., and colleagues released findings on a study of cross-clade neutralization patterns among HIV-1 strains from six major clades in the 5 Jun ... | |
Novel method to create personalized immunotherapy treatments August 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Argos Therapeutics and Université de Montréal today announced the presentation of new information on Argos' process for developing dendritic cell-based immunotherapies for HIV. Results from the study demonstrate that loading ... | |
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