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Jun '02
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Strategies for Third Line Therapy
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One area of HIV therapy research that has been inadequately addressed is strategies around third line therapy regimens. |
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Jun '02
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Oral Drug for CMV
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Oral treatment with the drug Valcyte (valganciclovir) appears to be as effective as its cousin ganciclovir, which is administered intravenously, for delaying the progression of
cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis in AIDS patients. |
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Jun '02
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Ugandan President Says Nation Has No Homosexuals
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni accepted a Commonwealth award for his government's successful campaign against HIV/AIDS, then declared that his country has no
homosexuals. |
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May '02
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Monkey 'defensin'protects human cells
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A substance scientists created using information taken from a monkey gene "dramatically protected" human cells from the AIDS virus. The researchers believe the substance, which they call retrocyclin, was once
produced naturally in human cells but was lost to humans because of an ancient mutation. |
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May '02
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Morning-After HIV Drugs Work
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Offering morning-after treatment to people potentially exposed to HIV through unprotected sex appears to ward off infection and does not increase risky sexual behavior, Brazilian researchers reported at the Ninth Conference
on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. |
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May '02
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AIDS Drugs and Heart Risk
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New research raises the possibility that lifesaving AIDS drugs may also increase the risk of heart trouble, although experts say the medicines' benefits still far outweigh any hazard. Conflicting studies of the question of
drug combinations and their effect on the heart were released in Seattle at the Ninth Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. |
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Apr '02
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KS Virus Predated AIDS Epidemic
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A herpes virus thought to cause Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), the disfiguring skin disease that became the signature of AIDS in the 1980s, was present in a quarter of all gay men in San Francisco in 1978, predating the arrival
of the AIDS virus, according to researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). |
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Apr '02
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Study Tests AIDS Drugs Break
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Denver is one of 16 US sites participating in "Strategies for Management of Antiretroviral Therapy," the first major, long-term study to investigate what happens when people with HIV/AIDS take a break from their
drug regimens. |
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Apr '02
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Nonoxynol-9 No STD Preventer
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The world's most widely used spermicide does not kill the bacteria that cause gonorrhea and chlamydia, according to a new report. |
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Apr '02
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New Anti-HIV Drug Strategies
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Research presented at Ninth Conference on Retroviruses indicates a new approach to controlling HIV by blocking the virus' ability to get inside human cells. |
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Mar '02
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Olympic Athletes, Spectators Get Free Condoms
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Salt Lake City has become the first Olympic host city where a quarter- million "safer sex kits" are distributed to the public. |
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Mar '02
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Protease Patients Face Greater Heart Risk
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According to evidence presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), patients on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) are at
greater risk for developing cardiovascular diseases. |
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Mar '02
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FDA OKs Once-Daily Sustiva
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US drug giant Bristol-Myers Squibb said on this month that the Food and Drug Administration has approved a once-daily tablet of its HIV treatment Sustiva. |
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Mar '02
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Glaxo to Begin Vaccine Trials
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British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline announced this month that it will begin a US clinical trial of a vaccine to prevent humans from being infected with HIV. |
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Mar '02
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Bush to Ban Birth Control, Condom Information
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President Bush has proposed $135 million for abstinence-only programs in the budget he sent to Congress this month-- a $33 million increase over this year. Sexual abstinence
programs bar discussion of birth control or condoms as effective ways to prevent pregnancy and STDs. |
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Feb '02
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Swazi King Violates Own Sex Ban
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Swaziland's King Mswati III has been fined one cow for violating his tiny kingdom's chastity rite prohibiting girls under age 18 from having sex, just two months after he himself reinstated the traditional ban. |
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Feb '02
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Unconventional weapons in Turkey's AIDS war
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To wear a condom or not to wear a condom? That is the question Turkey's Health Ministry is posing to young people, enlisting Shakespeare, Chinese history, and a chorus of singing condoms in an effort to spread awareness about the dangers of AIDS. |
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Feb '02
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HIV Drugs: No Picnic
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Investigators evaluated the prevalence of adverse events in 1,160 patients who were receiving antiretroviral treatment for HIV infection. |
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Feb '02
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AIDS: #1 Killer Inside City Prisons
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AIDS has become the biggest killer of prison inmates in Mexico City, the Mexican daily paper
Milenio reported. |
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Feb '02
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Canada: gay blood not wanted
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Concluding that patient safety outweighs the risk of discrimination, a Canadian advisory panel rejected calls to abandon a 15-year-old screening procedure that prohibits male homosexuals from giving blood. |
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Feb '02
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HIV seeks cholesterol
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Researchers have found an important role for cholesterol in how HIV infects a cell. Long known as the conveyor of HIV, a protein known as Gag seeks a place on a cell's membrane that is rich in cholesterol. |
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Jan '02
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Seaweed Derivative for HIV?
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Dr. Peter Kilmarx of the CDC is coordinating early trials of a microbicide called Carraguard that is derived from the seaweed Chrondrus crispus. "This seaweed is used already in foods and cosmetics and has been shown in
animal studies to have no significant problems of irritation," Kilmarx said. |
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Jan '02
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Garlic supplements can lower potency of saquinavir
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A new study has found that garlic supplements can cut blood concentrations of the antiretroviral drug saquinavir by more than half. |
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Jan '02
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Cycling drugs may curb AIDS
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A study by federal researchers offers encouraging news for AIDS patients on antiretroviral medication. The researchers found that a small group of patients was able to successfully follow a drug regimen of one week on and
one week off antiretroviral medications. This may mean that AIDS patients on the powerful combination drug regimen can take week-long vacations from the regimen and still control HIV. |
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Jan '02
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Delaying HIV drugs may be okay for some
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Symptom-free HIV patients can safely hold off taking AIDS drugs longer than previously thought, two new studies suggest. |
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Jan '02
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New HIV Subtype May Be Tougher to Treat
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CDC researchers have identified a new class of HIV that could give rise to infections that are resistant to AZT and potentially thwart the effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy in some patients. |
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Dec '01
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AIDS Patients Do OK with Transplants
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According to researchers, patients infected with HIV appear to do well following the receipt of donor kidneys and livers. |
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Dec '01
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Diet, Alcohol Lipodystrophy Link
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Dietary levels of fiber, alcohol and fat may play important roles in lipodystrophy, the abnormal body-fat distribution seen in some HIV patients, according to a new report. |
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Dec '01
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Dutch Docs Can Prescribe Weed
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The Dutch Cabinet has approved a bill to allow Netherlands' pharmacies to fill prescriptions, paid for by the government, for marijuana. |
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Dec '01
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FDA Approves Viread
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Viread, a new once-daily pill to treat HIV. |
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