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Dec 31
How HIV Became a Treatable, Chronic Disease
It has been almost 35 years since the world was introduced to the term AIDS. In the 1980s, researchers and physicians were trying to understand what was causing waves of strange infections and discovered it was a new virus called the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. Since that time, HIV has gone from a death sentence to a manageable chronic ...
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Dec 24
Ending HIV may hinge on erasing economic disparities
A major insurer said recently it would offer life insurance to HIV-positive people because of their rising life expectancies, prompting cheers from AIDS activists. But on the very same day, the nation’s top disease control official described an America falling far short in its fight against AIDS. It might seem a jarring disconnect — but it reflects very different realities dividing ...
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Dec 16
Scientists reveal new phase of HIV infection
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School have identified a new life cycle stage in HIV infection, thanks to a novel technique they developed to take images of intact infected cells. They've shown that this phase of infection, dubbed intra-nuclear migration, by principal investigator Abraham L. Brass, MD, PhD, relies on the human protein CPSF6 to guide the virus ...
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Dec 9
L.A. allocates $12.4 million to aid homeless people ahead of El Niño storms
Los Angeles leaders on Wednesday allocated $12.4 million for emergency relief to get homeless people off the streets before the anticipated El Niño winter storms bear down on the city.
The vote to commit the funds, which include $10 million in short-term rent subsidies for veterans and other homeless people, and $1.7 million for emergency shelter beds, marks the first time ...
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Dec 2
How HIV became a treatable, chronic disease
It has been almost 35 years since the world was introduced to the term AIDS. In the 1980s, researchers and physicians were trying to understand what was causing waves of strange infections and discovered it was a new virus called the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. Since that time, HIV has gone from a death sentence to a manageable chronic ...
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Nov 12
These Obamacare Health Plans Limit Access to HIV Meds
This year, only 16 percent of the Silver health insurance plans covered all the top HIV drug regimens with a cost to the consumer of less than $100 per month per regimen, according to a new analysis by Avalere Health. The Silver plan is one of the four “metal” categories of health insurance plans offered under the Affordable Care Act ...
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Nov 2
Ryan White HIV-AIDS Program Gets $2.2 Billion Award
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program would be awarded $2.2 billion for the fiscal year of 2015-2016 to continue to aid in the fight against these two diseases.
The award is proof that the agency fully supports the care system that the Ryan White CARE Act has created, which has helped over ...
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Oct 26
First trial to use umbilical cord stem cells to cure HIV
The world’s first clinical trial which aims to cure five HIV patients within three years using transplants of blood from umbilical cords is set to start in Spain.
The project seeks to be the world’s first clinical trial of its kind by recreating the success of Timothy Ray Brown — the only living person ever to be completely cured of HIV, ...
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Oct 19
New Coating for HIV Drug Holds Promise for Patients
Managing HIV could get a lot easier with a new delivery system for anti-AIDS drugs.
Instead of daily pills, the treatment could lead to drugs that can be administered just once or twice per year.
The new delivery system, designed at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, starts with protease inhibitors, the antiretroviral drugs commonly used to treat HIV. The so-called nanoformulation ...
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Oct 12
HIV Therapy May Also Lower Risk for Hepatitis B, Study Says
MONDAY, Oct. 12, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Not only does effective HIV therapy thwart the AIDS-causing virus, it may also reduce the risk for hepatitis B infection, a new study says.
"What this means to us is that effective HIV therapy appears to restore an impairment in the immune response that protects someone with HIV from acquiring hepatitis B infection," study ...
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