HIV Vaccine Okayed For Human Testing
Canadian researchers received approval Tuesday from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin testing an experimental and potentially breakthroug...
Canadian researchers received approval Tuesday from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin testing an experimental and potentially breakthroug...
Posted 12.01.2011
The AIDS rate among minorities is on the rise and politicians and celebrities are determined to find a way to put an end to it. "The rate of new i...
Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 12.01.2011
On this World AIDS Day -- 30 years after the first cases of HIV were reported in the U.S. and with 34 million people currently infected worldwide -- there is finally a roadmap for ending the AIDS epidemic globally and achieving an AIDS-free generation.
Ambassador Eric Goosby, MD | Posted 01.09.2012
By treating a person living with HIV, you reduce the risk of transmission to a heterosexual partner by 96 percent. That is as powerful as any HIV vaccine for which we could hope. Simply put, treatment is prevention.
Kevin Robert Frost | Posted 08.05.2011
We've come a long way in 30 years, and in many respects progress on AIDS is one of the most remarkable success stories in the history of biomedical research.
The Huffington Post | Craig Kanalley | Posted 07.16.2011
Back in December, word spread quickly that the "Berlin Patient" Timothy Ray Brown had apparently been cured of HIV. Brown is in the news again, tha...
The Huffington Post | Carly Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011
On the heels of World AIDS Day comes a stunning medical breakthrough: Doctors believe an HIV-positive man who underwent a stem cell transplant has bee...
AOL News | Posted 05.25.2011
American scientists are touting a major stride toward a vaccine that can ward off HIV, after finding two key proteins that neutralize 91 percent of th...
AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 11.17.2011
LONDON — The virus that causes AIDS could theoretically be eliminated in a decade if all people living in countries with high infection rates ar...
AP | PATRICK McGROARTY | Posted 05.25.2011
BERLIN — An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow trans...
Wall Street Journal | MARK SCHOOFS | Posted 11.17.2011
The startling case of an AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia is stirring new hope that gene-therapy strategies on th...
The Huffington Post | Jocelyn Richard | Posted 12.20.2011