Researchers share insights into RNA
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) LA JOLLA, Calif., May 11, 2010 -- Investigators from around the country came to Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) on Friday, May 7, to share...
View ArticleHHS Secretary Sebelius announces $1 billion in NIH Recovery Act awards for...
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced one billion dollars of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds have been awarded to...
View ArticleDynamic detection technique for HIV
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) A relatively simple electronic gadget could speed up HIV/AIDS diagnostics and improve accuracy particularly in parts of the world with very limited access to healthcare...
View ArticleRare hybrid cell key to regulating the immune system
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Toni BakerPublic Relations ManagerMedical College of Georgia706-721-4421 Office 706-732-0401 Beeper706-825-6473 Cell tbaker@mcg.eduMay 24, 2010Rare hybrid cell key to...
View ArticleFaith-based groups can aid response to HIV in Central America, study finds
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Faith-based organizations such as churches and religious relief and development groups can play an important role in the response to HIV and AIDS in Central America,...
View ArticleRetrovirus replication process different than thought
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) How a retrovirus, like HIV, reproduces and assembles new viruses is different than previously thought, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers....
View ArticleHIV/AIDS treatment curbs spread of disease: UBC-BC CfE study
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) The BC Centre of Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) published an important study today in the globally respected Lancet medical journal. The study strongly reinforces the...
View Article$9M NIH grant renewal awarded to Case Western Reserve/UHCMC Center for AIDS...
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) The Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) announced today it has received a five-year renewal grant...
View ArticleNIH-funded study finds early HAART during TB treatment boosts survival rate...
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) A clinical trial in Cambodia has found it possible to prolong the survival of untreated HIV-infected adults with very weak immune systems and newly diagnosed...
View ArticleNew global report launched by the International AIDS Society recommends a new...
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Thursday, 22 July, 2010 (Vienna, Austria)-- Against the backdrop of some of the globe's fastest growing HIV epidemics in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, a report...
View ArticleMother-to-child HIV transmission rate falling, but more can be done
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Transmission of HIV to children before or at birth has dropped dramatically around the country in the last decade since the advent of powerful new therapies. That...
View ArticleUofL receives $3.15 million grant from Helmsley Charitable Trust
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) The University of Louisville has received a $3.15 million grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to support the UofL James Graham Brown Cancer...
View ArticleVitamin A increases the presence of the HIV virus in breast milk
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Vitamin A and beta-carotene supplements are unsafe for HIV-positive women who breastfeed because they may boost the excretion of HIV in breast...
View ArticleUnprecedented effort to seek, test and treat inmates with HIV
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Twelve scientific teams in more than a dozen states will receive National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants to study effective ways to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS among...
View ArticleHHS agencies partner with PEPFAR to transform African medical education
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is partnering with the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) with a plan to invest $130 million over...
View ArticleDoctors at University of Colorado School of Medicine to train African doctors...
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) The HIV epidemic continues to grow, especially in Africa where it has orphaned millions of children and decimated entire communities. In this environment, funding to...
View Article30 years on in the epicenter of the African AIDS epidemic
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) The impact of 30 years of HIV on an area once described as the epicentre of the African AIDS epidemic will be discussed at a lecture hosted by the University of East...
View ArticleSurprising AIDS-treatment benefits, prevention strategy in epidemic regions...
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Two teams of researchers at UC San Diego and other U.S. and African universities and the World Bank have documented significant spillover benefits of a drug therapy to...
View ArticleFulbright Award has UC educator examining health challenges in China
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) The New Year has a University of Cincinnati professor sharing his vast and vital research background on health education in a new location. Randall Cottrell, a UC...
View ArticleBroadly-reactive neutralizing antibodies bring scientists closer to HIV vaccine
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) New findings are bringing scientists closer to an effective HIV vaccine. Researchers from Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (Seattle BioMed), Vanderbilt University...
View ArticleStudy suggests why HIV-uninfected babies of mothers with HIV might be more...
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Babies whose mothers have HIV, but who are not HIV-infected themselves, are born with lower levels of specific proteins in their blood called antibodies, which fight...
View ArticleNew vaccine technology protects mice from hepatitis C virus
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Immunology: Three percent of the world's population is currently infected by hepatitis C. The virus hides in the liver and can cause cirrhosis and liver cancer, and...
View ArticleNew drug regimens cut HIV spread from mother to infant
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Pregnant women who are unaware that they have HIV miss the chance for drug treatment that can benefit not only their own health, but could also prevent them from...
View Article6-month drug regimen cuts HIV risk for breastfeeding infants, NIH study finds
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Giving breastfeeding infants of HIV-infected mothers a daily dose of the antiretroviral drug nevirapine for six months halved the risk of HIV transmission to the...
View ArticleU of M scientist gets 5-year, $10 million grant to direct innovative HIV...
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Reuben Harris, professor in the University of Minnesota's College of Biological Sciences, has been awarded a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Institutes...
View ArticleAntibodies help protect monkeys from HIV-like virus, NIH scientists show
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) WHAT: Using a monkey model of AIDS, scientists have identified a vaccine-generated immune-system response that correlates with protection against infection by the...
View ArticleAnti-HIV gel being evaluated in pregnant and breastfeeding women
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) PITTSBURGH, June 20, 2011 -- Determining whether a promising HIV prevention gel is safe for women to use while they are pregnant or breastfeeding is the aim of a new...
View ArticleUNC tapped to lead national effort to find a cure for AIDS
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been awarded a $32 million, five-year federal grant to develop ways to cure...
View ArticleNIH funds Emory-led consortium to advance AIDS vaccine research
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) A consortium of leading vaccine researchers at Emory University and partner institutions has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant aimed at developing an...
View ArticleInternational AIDS Society to launch Virtual Media Centre in July to support...
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Tuesday, 19 July, 2011 (Rome, Italy) -- As a part of its new initiative, Expanding Access to Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST) for People Who Inject Drugs in Eastern...
View ArticleProtecting adolescent girls from unwanted unprotected sex
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Partner abuse leads to HIV infection, and black women are most at risk. A new study at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing has found that 46 percent of...
View ArticleScientists disarm HIV in step towards vaccine
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Researchers have found a way to prevent HIV from damaging the immune system, in a new lab-based study published in the journal Blood. The research, led by scientists at...
View ArticleNIH modifies 'VOICE' HIV prevention study in women
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) A large-scale clinical trial evaluating whether daily use of an oral tablet or vaginal gel containing antiretroviral drugs can prevent HIV infection in women is being...
View ArticleUSAID awards cooperative agreement to CONRAD for multipurpose prevention study
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Arlington, VA -- USAID awarded CONRAD a five year project with a $2 million ceiling to focus on testing the safety and effectiveness of the SILCS diaphragm, the...
View ArticleNYUCN receives $7.56 million NIH grant to research heterosexuals at high risk...
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) New York University College of Nursing (NYUCN) received a five-year, $7.56 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of...
View ArticleRisk of contracting diabetes to increase in world of 7 billion people
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) World citizen number 7 billion is less likely to die from infectious diseases like measles or even AIDS, and more likely to contract diabetes or other non-communicable...
View ArticleWayne State University project aims to reduce HIV, AIDS among African-Americans
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) DETROIT -- A grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, administered by the Michigan Department of Community Health, is helping a Wayne State University...
View ArticleSIV infection may lead to increase in immune-suppressive Treg cells
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Tissue in monkeys infected with a close relative of HIV can ramp up production of a type of T cell that actually weakens the body's attack against the invading virus....
View ArticleResearchers: Prevalence of improper condom use a public health issue worldwide
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Problems with the correct use of the male condom, such as not wearing a condom throughout sex or putting it on upside down, are common in the U.S....
View ArticleFirst guidelines issued for getting people newly diagnosed with HIV disease...
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Leading AIDS experts at Johns Hopkins and other institutions around the world have issued new guidelines to promote entry into and retention in HIV care, as well as...
View ArticleHIV/AIDS vaccine shows long-term protection against multiple exposures in...
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) An Atlanta research collaboration may be one step closer to finding a vaccine that will provide long-lasting protection against repeated exposures to human...
View ArticleText messages help HIV patients stick to antiretroviral drug therapy
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Mobile phones could play a valuable role in helping HIV patients to take their medication every day, according to a new Cochrane Systematic Review. The researchers...
View ArticleSeeking HIV treatment clues in the neem tree
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Tall, with dark-green pointy leaves, the neem tree of India is known as the village pharmacy. As a child growing up in metropolitan New Delhi, Sonia Arora recalls on...
View ArticleUCSF researchers identify a potential new HIV vaccine/therapy target
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) After being infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in a laboratory study, rhesus macaques that had more of a certain type of immune cell in their gut than...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins African bioethics program receives 5-year continuation grant...
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) The Fogarty African Bioethics Training Program (FABTP) at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics is planning its second decade of building capacity in research...
View ArticleDrugs used to treat HIV also reduce risk of HIV infection
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) People at high risk of HIV infection can reduce their risk of acquiring the disease by taking antiretroviral drugs, according to Cochrane researchers. In an update of a...
View ArticleThe American Society for Microbiology honors Mario Santiago
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) The 2012 ICAAC Young Investigator Award designated for a researcher working in the area of HIV has been bestowed upon Mario L. Santiago, Ph.D., Division of Infectious...
View ArticleAnimal study finds anti-HIV vaginal ring can prevent virus transmission
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Population Council scientists have found that a vaginal ring releasing an anti-HIV drug can prevent the transmission of SHIV in macaques. This study provides the first...
View ArticleGW researcher receives grant to study treatment and cause of cardiovascular...
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) In 1980, men and women who were diagnosed with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) had little to no hope of living long, full lives. Thanks to advances in science...
View ArticleA device to speed up HIV diagnostic test
( from http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Washington, Jan 25 - A low-cost device, known as the mChip, would speed up HIV diagnosis manifold and help provide the world's remote areas with lab-quality diagnostic...
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