Tag Archives : AIDS

Doctors announce that one HIV patient is free from infection due to a complex treatment that included stem cell transplantation resistant to the virus. The American Timothy Ray Brown, who lives in Germany, is being called the “Berlin patient” after spending three years free of the virus that causes AIDS in his body. His case is the result [...]

Long gone are those days, when people used to go the neighborhood doctor for just about everything, even for information on various health related concerns and issues. Nowadays, the Internet, a virtual world unto itself is fast becoming the one stop information library for just about every health issue. In the latest findings released by Harris Interactive, [...]

The number of HIV infected patients over 50 years of age more than doubled in the UK in seven years. Experts say the survey, released at an AIDS conference in Vienna, Austria, stressed the need to practice safe sex, regardless of age. In 2000, cases of HIV among people over 50 years came to 299 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Seven years later, [...]

Christmas has finally come and everybody is making merry on this joyful day with great effervescence! However, this year, the Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Foundation decided to keep the spirits of the festive season in a different way. The foundation recently held the 14th annual “Les Sapins Noel des Createurs” (Designer Christmas Tree) Charity [...]

The administering of the drug cocktail presently used to combat HIV/AIDS shows proof that ‘middle-aged sufferers have symptoms of HIV-negative 80-year-olds.’ Medical findings show that accelerated aging is tied to HIV/AIDS medicines. ‘The aging population of Americans with HIV/AIDS is in a much different spot than those infected before the drug [...]

The swine is in the news these days thanks to the swine flu which is spreading fast globally across various countries. The Swine flu getting attention in developed countries is understandable. Not many killer diseases or killing living conditions stalk people there. But it getting attention in developing nations and even under developed countries is [...]

Researchers of the University of Rouen, in France, identified a new variant of the virus HIV, cause of Aids, apparently transmitted to the humans by gorillas. The new variant was identified in a 62 years woman from Cameroon, in the west of Africa. The patient doesn’t demonstrate signs of having developed Aids, they affirm the researchers. According [...]

According to the 5th Annual Report of the HIV Vaccines and Microbicide Resource Tracking Working Group, investments in biomedical HIV prevention R&D have dropped for the first time since 2000. It is a ‘research field altered by changing scientific priorities and likely influenced by the global financial downturn that began in 2008.’ USA, the [...]

It was generally thought that apes acquire the infection but do not have the syndrome. A new study reveals that simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) bears the same results as when the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) develops into full-blown AIDS. A study published in the latest edition of the journal nature dismantles the theory that African primates [...]

In the battle to combat the AIDS and HIV, scientists at the Canadian University of Western Ontario have come up with an all new HIV/AIDS vaccine, known as SAV001H that would help millions, if approved by authorities. In collaboration with Sumagen Canada, a subsidiary of the Korean pharmaceutical company, the SAV001H vaccine was designed and developed [...]