HIV and AIDS
Longevity and Age Management
Cleaning Infected Blood-Biologists Develop Machine To Remove Viruses From Blood
Infectious disease experts designed a machine called the hemopurifier. It works much like a dialysis machine, using thin fibers to capture and remove viruses from the blood it filters. The machine requires the drawing of blood through an artery, which is sent through a tube into the machine, then back into the body. It can treat a number of illnesses. ... Continue Reading
Antibodies May Lead to Protection Against HIV
Some long-term survivors of HIV infection produce rare and extremely potent antibodies that keep the disease from progressing to AIDS, and might point to a way to protect uninfected people from the virus, researchers reported yesterday in the closing hours of the 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. ... Continue Reading
Growth hormone treatment for HIV patients improves abdominal fat, but worsens glucose level
For human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients with treatment-related abdominal obesity and growth hormone deficiency, receiving low-dose growth hormone resulted in improvement in fat and blood pressure measurements but worsened glucose levels, according to a study in the August 6 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on HIV/AIDS. ... Continue Reading
Doctors may have found a way to destroy HIV
There is real hope that what’s happening in a Houston lab might lead to a cure for HIV. ... Continue Reading
Meditation slows AIDS progression: Study
Meditation may slow the worsening of AIDS in just a few weeks, perhaps by affecting the immune system, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday. ... Continue Reading
Pathologists Believe They Have Pinpointed Achilles Heel Of HIV
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston believe they have uncovered the Achilles heel in the armor of the virus that continues to kill millions. ... Continue Reading
South African court bans trials of vitamin treatments for AIDs
A South African court has banned a team of scientists and doctors, including a former adviser to President Thabo Mbeki, from conducting unauthorised clinical trials into the use of vitamin therapies to treat Aids. ... Continue Reading
Vitamin 'could reduce' TB recurrence
Nutritional supplements could help to lower the risk of tuberculosis (TB) recurrences, according to a new study. ... Continue Reading
Fighting HIV With HIV: New Gene Therapy Vector Shows Promise
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine report the first clinical test of a new gene therapy based on a disabled AIDS virus carrying genetic material that inhibits HIV replication. For the first application of the new vector five subjects with chronic HIV infection who had failed to respond to at least two antiretroviral regimens were given a single infusion of their own immune cells that had been genetically modified for HIV resistance. ... Continue Reading
Annual Map Of AIDS Vaccine Research Activity Worldwide
The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative's (IAVI) January 2007 Annual Issue of VAX, an editorially independent bulletin on AIDS vaccine research published by IAVI, reports that 13 new preventive AIDS vaccine trials were initiated in eight countries around the world in 2006. There are now more than 30 trials ongoing in 24 countries, across every continent. ... Continue Reading
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