HIV

...the spread-out, disordered configuration and its location in the cell membrane may explain the ability of SEVI fibers to enhance HIV infection, as the arrangement provides more surface area with which the virus can interact. A key...

In this article: Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, Peptide, Biophysics, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Biophysical Journal, Medical advice, and Curcumin

Article Date: 20 Nov 2009 - 5:00 PST 'Blot' On U.S. HIV/AIDS Leadership Removed A "blot" on U.S. HIV/AIDS leadership "ended last month when President [Barack] Obama lifted the prohibition" that kept HIV-positive foreigners from visiting...

In this article: AIDS, Malaria, George W. Bush, Medical advice, Terrence Higgins Trust, and Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

...findings of this study, which she describes as "quite sobering". There is currently an opt-out policy for HIV testing even though the HIV prevalence in Uganda is 6.4 percent. One year after the implementation of the opt-out policy,...

In this article: Transmission, Uganda, AIDS, Syphilis, Africa, Southern Africa, and Washington

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) - OraSure Technologies Inc., which makes diagnostic kits to detect HIV and drug use, said Thursday it will pay Inverness Medical $3 million to settle a patent dispute over HIV tests. Under the deal, OraSure settles the...

In this article: FLU, Hepatitis, Thomson Reuters, Church & Dwight Co., Bethlehem, and Pennsylvania

...clinical virology, molecular biology, and epidemiology, JAIDS publishes vital information on the advances in diagnosis and treatment of HIV infections, as well as the latest research in the development of therapeutics and vaccine approaches.

In this article: AIDS, United Nations, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, Medical advice, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Recession, and Transmission

...to the perspectives of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the role of home use HIV test kits and the risks and benefits of home use HIV test kits. In addition, OraSure participated in a closed session with the BPAC in which...

In this article: FDA, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Bethlehem

A Bundaberg teenager who was wrongly told by Queensland Health she may have contracted HIV says the error caused her to lose her only source of income. Gabrielle Carruthers, 16, was one of 33 patients treated at the Bundaberg Hospital...

In this article: Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis, and Hepatitis C

...in African-American women between the ages of 25 to 34, according to Avert, an international HIV and AIDS charity that works to avert HIV and AIDS by promoting education, care and treatment. African-Americans represent 13 percent of the U.S....

In this article: STD, AIDS, IP Address, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S., and Barack Obama

"Our research suggests that the adenovirus-based HIV vaccine effectively instructs the cells that HIV infects to gather round exactly where HIV is likely to be introduced. This is clearly worrying for this kind of vaccine. Scientists are...

In this article: Imperial College London, Adenovirus infection, Malaria, Medical advice, King's College London, Common cold, Terrence Higgins Trust, and Royal Holloway, University of London

...are preparing to launch a study in the District with an ambitious goal: to determine whether aggressive treatment of every adult with HIV could eliminate AIDS. As part of the study, the NIH will provide the Health Department with...

In this article: Anthony S. Fauci, AIDS, National Institutes of Health, New York, World AIDS Day, University of California at Los Angeles, and University of North Carolina