News results: "HIV patients"

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Health

Nearly 3,000 Urged to Get Tested for Hepatitis B in New Jersey

New Jersey officials are advising nearly 3,000 people to get blood tests after an outbreak of...
» read full story April 03rd, 2009 - 16:41
HIV Treatment Should Be Started Earlier than Currently Recommended

HIV Treatment Should Be Started Earlier than Currently Recommended

HIV patients should begin antiretroviral treatments earlier than what current guidelines recommend...
» read full story April 03rd, 2009 - 14:06

3000 Vets at Risk of HIV and Hepatitis after Unsterile Procedure

More than 3,000 patients undergoing certain routine medical procedures at Miami’s VA...
» read full story March 24th, 2009 - 19:18
March 24 Is World TB Day

March 24 Is World TB Day

March 24 is World TB Day, a day that aims to remind people that the disease is still a major health...
» read full story March 24th, 2009 - 16:47
Good News for Medical Marijuana Users

Good News for Medical Marijuana Users

Recently, U.S Attorney General Eric Holder said his Justice Department would leave it to states...
» read full story March 01st, 2009 - 14:00
Combination of Two-Already Approved Drugs May Cure Resistant TB

Combination of Two-Already Approved Drugs May Cure Resistant TB

Two FDA-approved drugs show promise in treating extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB),...
» read full story February 27th, 2009 - 14:01
HIV Gene Therapy Shows Optimistic Results

HIV Gene Therapy Shows Optimistic Results

The first phase 2 gene therapy trial for treating HIV has shown some promising first results. The...
» read full story February 16th, 2009 - 23:55
HIV/AIDS Still a Threat, especially among African Americans

HIV/AIDS Still a Threat, especially among African Americans

Nowadays HIV/AIDS continues to be a threat to men, women and children to all communities as many...
» read full story February 09th, 2009 - 15:27
Report: Bush Administration Was Successful in Fighting HIV/AIDS

Report: Bush Administration Was Successful in Fighting HIV/AIDS

Although the Bush administration is going to leave Barack Obama a nation, which is locked in two...
» read full story January 13th, 2009 - 14:17
Blood Donations Needed during the Winter Months

Blood Donations Needed during the Winter Months

January is a difficult period for local blood centers to collect blood donations due to the...
» read full story January 04th, 2009 - 13:05
Doctors Urge HIV Tests for All Patients Over 13

Doctors Urge HIV Tests for All Patients Over 13

On the very same day the world was celebrating the World AIDS Day, the American College of...
» read full story December 02nd, 2008 - 15:00
More Efforts Are Needed to Combat Discrimination against HIV/AIDS Sufferers

More Efforts Are Needed to Combat Discrimination against HIV/AIDS Sufferers

The fact that there is a lot of inaccurate information about how HIV is transmitted also...
» read full story December 01st, 2008 - 14:00
China’s HIV/AIDS Epidemic Continues To Be A Problem

China’s HIV/AIDS Epidemic Continues To Be A Problem

There are currently an estimated 700,000 people living with HIV in China, including 85,000 AIDS...
» read full story November 30th, 2008 - 16:10

Complacency About AIDS Heightens Risks, Experts Say

Geneva - Asian countries, youngsters and people spoiled by the availability of medicines in the...
» read full story November 28th, 2008 - 16:49

HIV Protection: Could Pills Work Wonders Against HIV?

New York /Bethesda, Maryland - Anti-HIV medicines have rescued tens of thousands or perhaps even...
» read full story November 28th, 2008 - 13:27
WHO: Universal Testing And Treatment Could Tackle AIDS

WHO: Universal Testing And Treatment Could Tackle AIDS

In an attempt to find answers on how to better tackle the AIDS epidemic and the role of so-called...
» read full story November 26th, 2008 - 15:00
Indonesia’s Papua Province Considering Microchip Monitoring For HIV Patients

Indonesia’s Papua Province Considering Microchip Monitoring For HIV Patients

Lawmakers in Indonesia’s Papua province worked to pass a bill that would require HIV/AIDS patients...
» read full story November 25th, 2008 - 14:20

Indonesian Papua To Tag AIDS Sufferers With Microchips

The western Indonesian province of Papua, the country’s largest, is going to pass a bylaw...
» read full story November 25th, 2008 - 11:31
Controversial Bill Will Enable Tracking HIV patients in Papua

Controversial Bill Will Enable Tracking HIV patients in Papua

A controversial bill that requires some HIV patients to be implanted with microchips has just...
» read full story November 24th, 2008 - 17:35
New Drug Set To Solve Mutation Problem

New Drug Set To Solve Mutation Problem

The bavituximab drug was tested on lab animals and it has shown remarkable success in tackling two...
» read full story November 24th, 2008 - 17:22
HIV Testing Recommendations Highly Ignored

HIV Testing Recommendations Highly Ignored

Two years after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that patients in...
» read full story November 24th, 2008 - 14:28

"AIDS cure" good for only 1 per cent of patients, say experts

Hamburg - Physicians in Germany who say they have "functionally cured" a patient with...
» read full story November 24th, 2008 - 06:40
HIV Patients Have a Higher Risk Of Developing Cancer As Well

HIV Patients Have a Higher Risk Of Developing Cancer As Well

When you think one’s health is as bad as it can get, think again, as doctors are discovering a new...
» read full story November 23rd, 2008 - 23:17

Hospital Don’t Test For HIV Routinely

In 2006, the Federal Government strongly advised that all patients who visit emergency rooms and...
» read full story November 21st, 2008 - 21:41
CDC Advice For HIV Testing Still Not Followed In Many ERs

CDC Advice For HIV Testing Still Not Followed In Many ERs

Back in 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called for virtually all patients...
» read full story November 21st, 2008 - 14:02
FDA Panel Says Wrinkle Fillers Should Carry Stronger Warnings

FDA Panel Says Wrinkle Fillers Should Carry Stronger Warnings

Labels of popular cosmetic wrinkle fillers should carry stronger warnings about potential side...
» read full story November 19th, 2008 - 15:00
Beauty Has Its Price: Wrinkle Fillers Tied to Serious Side Effects

Beauty Has Its Price: Wrinkle Fillers Tied to Serious Side Effects

It appears that beauty has its price if considering the latest news for the Food and Drug...
» read full story November 17th, 2008 - 14:30
Bone Marrow Transplants May Cure HIV

Bone Marrow Transplants May Cure HIV

HIV, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, is such a hardy pathogen that the concept of curing a poor...
» read full story November 14th, 2008 - 17:51
Leukemia and HIV Gone After Bone Marrow Transplant

Leukemia and HIV Gone After Bone Marrow Transplant

Medical history was written recently, after a patient with both leukemia and HIV received a bone...
» read full story November 13th, 2008 - 22:06
Breakthrough In Medicine: Bone Marrow Transplant Might Cure HIV?

Breakthrough In Medicine: Bone Marrow Transplant Might Cure HIV?

A German doctor says one of his patients, who suffered from leukaemia and was infected with the...
» read full story November 13th, 2008 - 14:20
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Business

Gilead’s AIDS Drug Viread Gets FDA Clearance for Hepatitis B

Gilead’s AIDS Drug Viread Gets FDA Clearance for Hepatitis B

Gilead Sciences Inc.’ AIDS drug Viread received the Food and Drug Administration’ s approval on...
» read full story August 13th, 2008 - 17:15
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Specials

One in Four Tuberculosis Deaths Involves a Person Infected with HIV

One in Four Tuberculosis Deaths Involves a Person Infected with HIV

Tuberculosis killed more people with HIV than ever in 2007, according to a new report released by...
» read full story March 25th, 2009 - 16:59
China Promises to Fight AIDS Discrimination

China Promises to Fight AIDS Discrimination

Sunday, when the AIDS awareness symbol-a red ribbon-was unveiled at the Olympic Bird's Nest...
» read full story November 30th, 2008 - 15:18
Can AIDS Epidemic Be Stopped?

Can AIDS Epidemic Be Stopped?

How to manage the HIV epidemic is a question that appears to be more frequent than ever nowadays....
» read full story November 27th, 2008 - 14:27
Many People Don’t Get Tested For HIV

Many People Don’t Get Tested For HIV

A large number of people close their eyes when it comes to getting tested for HIV, even though two...
» read full story November 21st, 2008 - 16:46
Bone Marrow Transplant Might Cure AIDS? Or Not?

Bone Marrow Transplant Might Cure AIDS? Or Not?

A German doctor says one of his patients, who suffered from leukaemia and was infected with the...
» read full story November 14th, 2008 - 08:51

World's First HIV-Positive Organ Transplants Performed in South Africa

Johannesburg - The world's first organ transplants from an HIV-positive donor to HIV-positive...
» read full story October 24th, 2008 - 14:50

German, French Scientists Awarded Nobel Prize for Virus Discoveries

Stockholm - The finding of cervical cancer virus and the discovery of the human immunodeficiency...
» read full story October 06th, 2008 - 16:18
Confusion Around Gilead’s Drugs Viread And Hepsera

Confusion Around Gilead’s Drugs Viread And Hepsera

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Viread – an antiretroviral drug which has been...
» read full story August 12th, 2008 - 16:10
AIDS Conference Ends with a Call to Fight Stigmatization

AIDS Conference Ends with a Call to Fight Stigmatization

Participants at the 17th International AIDS Conference made a call on the last day of the meeting...
» read full story August 11th, 2008 - 17:00
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Science

HIV Treatment Is Most Efficient when Started Earlier, Study Says

HIV Treatment Is Most Efficient when Started Earlier, Study Says

US and Canadian researchers suggests that starting HIV treatment earlier than currently...
» read full story October 28th, 2008 - 14:30
Large Human Trial Of HIV Vaccine Canceled By NIAID

Large Human Trial Of HIV Vaccine Canceled By NIAID

The National Institutes of Health on Thursday canceled a US human trial of a human...
» read full story July 21st, 2008 - 08:13
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World

China Promises To Fight AIDS Discrimination

China Promises To Fight AIDS Discrimination

Sunday, when the AIDS awareness symbol-a red ribbon-was unveiled at the Olympic Bird's Nest...
» read full story December 01st, 2008 - 14:34
Lawmakers in Papua, Indonesia Seek Microchip Monitoring for HIV Patients

Lawmakers in Papua, Indonesia Seek Microchip Monitoring for HIV Patients

Lawmakers in Papua, Indonesia want to keep an eye on people infected with HIV virus and prevent...
» read full story November 28th, 2008 - 15:26

Indonesian Papua to Tag AIDS Sufferers with Microchips

The western Indonesian province of Papua, the country’s largest, is going to pass a bylaw...
» read full story November 24th, 2008 - 18:30
When Bone Marrow Transplant Cures HIV

When Bone Marrow Transplant Cures HIV

The medical world has welcomed the first case of HIV completely cured. Is that possible, some have...
» read full story November 15th, 2008 - 14:08
Three European Scientists Won The 2008 Nobel Prize For Medicine

Three European Scientists Won The 2008 Nobel Prize For Medicine

One German and two French scientists won the 2008 Nobel prize in medicine for their work in...
» read full story October 07th, 2008 - 09:41

Man Who Illegally Sold Body Parts For Implant Surgeries Pleads Guilty

Michael Mastromarino, 44, of Fort Lee, N.J, the ringleader of a national body parts scheme, pleaded...
» read full story August 30th, 2008 - 17:16
US’ Fight against HIV – Successful Overseas, But Not within Its Borders

US’ Fight against HIV – Successful Overseas, But Not within Its Borders

The number of people being infected with HIV virus in the US is about 40 percent higher than...
» read full story August 03rd, 2008 - 18:21
Agreement to Triple AIDS Funding For PEPFAR

Agreement to Triple AIDS Funding For PEPFAR

The Bush administration recorded one of the most successful achievements yesterday when a major...
» read full story February 28th, 2008 - 16:31
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People

Richard Gere Wins Humanitarian Marian Anderson Award

Richard Gere Wins Humanitarian Marian Anderson Award

Richard Gere, 58, was honored by Philadelphia on Monday, receiving Marian Anderson Award, for his...
» read full story November 13th, 2007 - 10:34
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