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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...
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HIV Treatment Should Be Started Earlier than Currently Recommended
HIV patients should begin antiretroviral treatments earlier than what current guidelines recommend...
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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...
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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...
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Good News for Medical Marijuana Users
Recently, U.S Attorney General Eric Holder said his Justice Department would leave it to states...
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Combination of Two-Already Approved Drugs May Cure Resistant TB
Two FDA-approved drugs show promise in treating extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB),...
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HIV Gene Therapy Shows Optimistic Results
The first phase 2 gene therapy trial for treating HIV has shown some promising first results. The...
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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...
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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...
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Blood Donations Needed during the Winter Months
January is a difficult period for local blood centers to collect blood donations due to the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Complacency About AIDS Heightens Risks, Experts Say
Geneva - Asian countries, youngsters and people spoiled by the availability of medicines in the...
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HIV Protection: Could Pills Work Wonders Against HIV?
New York /Bethesda, Maryland - Anti-HIV medicines have rescued tens of thousands or perhaps even...
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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...
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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...
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Indonesian Papua To Tag AIDS Sufferers With Microchips
The western Indonesian province of Papua, the country’s
largest, is going to pass a bylaw...
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Controversial Bill Will Enable Tracking HIV patients in Papua
A controversial bill that requires some HIV patients to be implanted with microchips has just...
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New Drug Set To Solve Mutation Problem
The bavituximab drug was tested on lab animals and it has shown remarkable success in tackling two...
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HIV Testing Recommendations Highly Ignored
Two years after the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention recommended that patients in...
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"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...
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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...
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Hospital Don’t Test For HIV Routinely
In 2006, the Federal Government strongly advised that all patients who visit emergency rooms and...
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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...
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FDA Panel Says Wrinkle Fillers Should Carry Stronger Warnings
Labels of popular cosmetic wrinkle fillers should carry
stronger warnings about potential side...
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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...
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Bone Marrow Transplants May Cure HIV
HIV, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, is such a hardy
pathogen that the concept of curing a
poor...
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Leukemia and HIV Gone After Bone Marrow Transplant
Medical history was written recently, after a patient with both leukemia and HIV received a bone...
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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...
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China Promises To Fight AIDS Discrimination
Sunday,
when the AIDS awareness symbol-a red ribbon-was unveiled at the Olympic
Bird's Nest...
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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...
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Indonesian Papua to Tag AIDS Sufferers with Microchips
The western Indonesian province of Papua, the country’s
largest, is going to pass a bylaw...
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When Bone Marrow Transplant Cures HIV
The medical world has welcomed the first case of HIV completely cured. Is that possible, some have...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Agreement to Triple AIDS Funding For PEPFAR
The Bush administration recorded one of the most successful achievements yesterday when a major...
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