News tagged with journal of aids

New HIV model suggests killer T cell for vaccine

Limited success in modelling the behaviour of the complex, unusual and unpredictable HIV virus has slowed efforts to develop an effective vaccine to prevent AIDS.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 29, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New discoveries make it harder for HIV to hide from drugs

The virus that causes AIDS is chameleon-like in its replication. As HIV copies itself in humans, it constantly mutates into forms that can evade even the best cocktail of current therapies. Understanding exactly how HIV cells ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 15, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Daily dose of HIV drug reduces risk of HIV infection

A daily dose of an oral antiretroviral drug, currently approved to treat HIV infection, reduced the risk of acquiring HIV infection by 43.8 percent among men who have sex with men. The findings, a major advance in HIV prevention ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Why Some Monkeys Don't Get AIDS

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two studies published this month in the Journal of Clinical Investigation provide a significant advance in understanding how some species of monkeys such as sooty mangabeys and African green ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Full results show AIDS vaccine is of modest help

(AP) -- Fresh results from the world's first successful test of an experimental AIDS vaccine confirm that it is only marginally effective and suggest that its protection against HIV infection may wane over time.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

AIDS patients face higher risk of HPV-related cancers as immunosuppression grows

Risk of human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated cancers is greater for people living with AIDS and increases with increasing immunosuppression, according to a new study published online July 31 in the Journal of the National Ca ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers progress toward AIDS vaccine

Rutgers AIDS researchers Gail Ferstandig Arnold and Eddy Arnold may have turned a corner in their search for a HIV vaccine. In a paper just published in the Journal of Virology, the husband and wife duo and ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists Find Rare, Potent Antibody to HIV-1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have for the first time isolated an important antibody in human serum that could potentially play a key role in the design of an AIDS vaccine. The research appears ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Spanish doctors unveil promising AIDS vaccine

Spanish researchers announced Tuesday they have developed an AIDS vaccine which cuts the viral load by a significant amount in most patients although they cautioned it is still not enough as a treatment.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Feb 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Kidneys transplanted between HIV-infected patients

(AP) -- South African surgeons have transplanted kidneys between donors and patients who were both infected with the AIDS virus - a medical first that has some U.S. doctors buzzing about whether it could be tried here.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jun 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New study measures HIV anti-retroviral regimens' safety and efficacy

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine released on World AIDS Day reports that viral failure, the point at which medication can no longer suppress the HIV infection, was twice as likely and happen ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research shows treating HIV-AIDS with interleukin-2 is ineffective

An international research team has demonstrated that treating HIV-AIDS with interleukin-2 (IL-2) is ineffective. As a result, the researchers recommend that clinical trials on this compound be stopped. Their finding was published ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Routine HIV screening in community health centers boosts HIV testing

UCSF researchers have that found routinely offering rapid HIV tests to patients in community health centers can significantly increase the number of patients screened for HIV.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hindering HIV-1-fighting immune cells

Immune proteins called HLA molecules help to activate killer T cell responses against pathogens. But according to a study that will be published online on December 14th in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, one partic ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Certain cancers more common among HIV patients than non-HIV patients

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found that non-AIDS-defining malignancies such as anal and lung cancer have become more prevalent among HIV-infected patients than non-HIV patients since ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0