New Quad HIV drug as effective as current therapies, with fewer side effects
Gilead Sciences, Inc. has announced full Phase 3 clinical trial results from a study demonstrating that the Quad, a once-daily single tablet regimen of elvitegravir, cobicistat, emtricitabine and...
View ArticleDrug helps purge hidden HIV virus
A team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have successfully brought latent HIV infection out of hiding, with a drug used to treat certain types of lymphoma. Tackling...
View ArticleOrigami-inspired paper sensor could test for malaria and HIV for less than 10...
Chemists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a 3-D paper sensor that may be able to test for diseases such as malaria and HIV for less than 10 cents a pop. Such low-cost,...
View ArticleHIV rates for black women up to five times higher than previous estimates
Results from a study released today show that HIV rates among African American women are much higher than previous estimates. The HPTN 064 Women's HIV Seroincidence Study (ISIS) found an HIV incidence...
View ArticleComputer simulations help explain why HIV cure remains elusive
A new research report shows why the development of treatments for HIV has been so difficult. The report explains how Jack da Silva, author of the study, used computer simulations to discover that a...
View ArticleClues to why HIV vaccine showed modest protection
Insights into how the first vaccine ever reported to modestly prevent HIV infection might have worked were published online today in the New England Journal of Medicine. Among adults who received the...
View ArticleEngineered stem cells seek out and kill the HIV in mice
A research team from UCLA has demonstrated that stem cells that were genetically engineered into HIV-fighting cells can attack HIV cells in living organisms. Previously, the team took the T cells that...
View ArticleHIV: Why developing treatments and vaccines is so difficult
Researchers from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a joint research venture by the US Army and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have recently published...
View ArticleNew AIDS math could halve need for CD4 tests after ART in developing countries
Researchers at Wistar Institute and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with global collaborators, introduce a new "prediction-based classification" system that could potentially reduce the...
View ArticleGiving preventive drug to men at high risk for HIV would be cost-effective
Stanford University researchers have published a study on the cost effectiveness of a once-daily drug in reducing the risk of HIV infection through a prevention technique known as pre-exposure...
View ArticleAntiretroviral drugs can lower HIV transmission to nursing babies
The Lancet recently published new results from the Breastfeeding, Antiretrovirals, and Nutrition (BAN) trial conducted between 2004 and 2010 in Malawi. The current results focus on the effects of...
View ArticleStem cells successfully treat HIV in mouse model
Researchers from University of California, Davis demonstrated the safety and efficacy of transplanting anti-HIV stem cells into mouse models in a new study. The technique involves engineering stem...
View ArticleFlash-heating breastmilk feasible for HIV-infected mothers in poor countries
An international research team led by University of California, Davis has found that the World Health Organization's recommendation to flash-heat breastmilk is feasible for mothers in sub-Saharan...
View ArticleGenetic therapy for HIV effective in patients for over a decade
A new study has proven the long-term success of treating HIV patients with genetically modified T cells. Patients who received infusions of their own T cells, which had been genetically modified in...
View ArticleMedical Nova Weekly: Top trends for 4/30-5/4
Here’s your weekly roundup of hot medical news! Mending a broken heart with stem cells and microRNAs Just like a deep wound causes a scar to form on the skin’s surface, the damage sustained during a...
View ArticleMedical Weekly: Top trends for 5/7-5/11
Here’s the top medical news of this week! Promising new HIV treatments give hope for eventual cure The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS, is one of the most pressing...
View ArticleNew chip could diagnose HIV and leukemia
Diagnosing diseases such as HIV and leukemia could soon be as simple as screening cells using an inexpensive, portable device. The new chip can focus cells into a single stream and assess them in...
View ArticleMedical Weekly: Top trends for 5/28-6/1
Enjoy this week’s wrap up of trending medical news! Rats paralyzed due to spinal cord injury walking again thanks to new therapy Rats that were previously paralyzed as the result of spinal cord...
View ArticleHIV treatment: potential alternative to gene therapy
Scientists have highlighted the potential of a new technique that could act as a safer alternative to an experimental gene therapy against HIV infection. The method involves zinc finger nuclease (ZFN)...
View ArticleTaking routine injections out of the routine
Nearly one million individuals with diabetes have to inject themselves daily with insulin. Patients with HIV and certain types of cancer also require frequent injections, a necessary inconvenience...
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