How HIV hides itself April 01, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Researchers have discovered how Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, can hide itself in our cells and dodge the attention of our normal defences, scientists heard today at the Society for General Microbiology’s ... | |
When should children with HIV infection be started on anti-HIV medications? March 25, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | User comments: 1
The advent of effective medications for treating HIV dramatically improved the outlook for both adults and children infected with HIV who had access to treatment, but the optimal timing for starting treatment remains controversial, ... | |
Researchers discover how HIV turns food-poisoning into lethal infection March 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Nearly half of all HIV-positive African adults who become infected with Salmonella die from what otherwise would be a seven-day bout of diarrhea. Now, UC Davis School of Medicine scientists have discovered how salmonella ... | |
Infection with a mutated HIV strain results in better survival March 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Persons infected with a mutated HIV strain, transmitted from those who have the genetic advantages to control the virus, results in improved survival according to a recent study by South African researchers. The study, published ... | |
Food insecurity linked with HIV/AIDS in Africa March 19, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Determining how the HIV/AIDS epidemic increases food insecurity in African cities – and what can be done to reduce the chances of this happening –is the focus of a new, international Queen’s-led project. | |
London's HIV epidemic was driven by clusters of sexual contacts March 18, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
The rapid growth of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in London during the late 1990s was driven in part by transmission of the AIDS virus within clusters of sexual contacts, with individuals frequently passing the virus to others within ... | |
 Insight into HIV's 'on-off' switch shows promise for therapy, understanding cellular decisions March 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have discovered how a genetic circuit in HIV controls whether the virus turns on or stays dormant, and have succeeded ... | |
Neural progenitor cells as reservoirs for HIV in the brain March 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Impaired brain function is a prominent and still unsolved problem in AIDS . Shortly after an individual becomes infected with HIV, the virus can invade the brain and persist in this organ for life. Many HIV-infected individuals ... | |
HIV breakthrough: Researchers identify protein that fights immunodeficiency March 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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A Canada-U.S. research team has solved a major genetic mystery: How a protein in some people’s DNA guards them against killer immune diseases such as HIV. In an advance online edition of Nature Medicine, the scientists ... | |
Researchers discover gene that blocks HIV February 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 195 vote(s)
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A team of researchers at the University of Alberta has discovered a gene that is able to block HIV, and in turn prevent the onset of AIDS. | |
Monkey gene that blocks AIDS viruses evolved more than once February 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Researchers at Harvard Medical School have identified a gene in Asian monkeys that may have evolved as a defense against lentiviruses, the group of viruses that includes HIV. The study, published February 29 in the open-access ... | |
Scientists devise approach that stops HIV at earliest stage of infection February 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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Their study, which appears this week in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), may re-energize attempts to create a preventive/therapeutic vaccine against HIV, say the authors. ... | |
About one-quarter of women with HIV want to become pregnant February 25, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
About one in four women who have tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) expect pregnancy and motherhood to be a part of their future, recent research suggests. | |
Anti-HIV gel proven safe, tolerable for women February 25, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
An experimental anti-HIV gel is safe for women to use on a daily basis, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. | |
Scientists reactivate immune February 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology (GIVI) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have found that therapy can be used to stimulate the production of vital immune cells, called ... | |
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