http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. There is no government strategy to fight the spread of AIDS in Russia, where the number of deaths caused by the disease continues to grow, a senior healthcare official said on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-russia-anti-aids-strategy.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 16 May 2013 15:03:36 EST news287935410 A research coordinated by the UAB has succeeded in testing a vaccine against leishmaniasis. The vaccine was tested with the best animal model existing, the golden hamster, and can be produced at low costs by using insect larvae. The research, published in the latest edition of PLoS ONE, is an important step towards the fight against a disease which causes the death of 70,000 people each year in developing countries and of countless dogs, which also suffer from this disease and are its natural reservoir. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-successful-results-human-leishmaniasis-efficient.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:27:12 EST news275131626 (AP)—Andrei Mandrykin, an inmate at Prison No. 85 outside Kiev, has HIV. He looks ghostly and much older than his 35 years. But Mandrykin is better off than tens of thousands of his countrymen, because is he receiving treatment amid what the World Health Organization says is the worst AIDS epidemic in Europe. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-ukraine-hiv-epidemic.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 30 Nov 2012 06:55:43 EST news273480932 While it may be that some Americans doubt we're related to chimps and other primates, viruses recognize the similarities in our cells. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-viruses-species-rapidly.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:20:01 EST news270148208 A swarm of trained rats is on its way to Mozambique to help the country's over-stretched health system detect tuberculosis in patients, officials said Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-rats-tb-mozambique.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:30:45 EST news269256635 Each year, nearly 2 million people die from tuberculosis – a treatable disease that has been brought under control in the United States, but continues to ravage other parts of the world. This health inequity should prompt a complete rethinking of the way tuberculosis is fought on a global level, argue Salmaan Keshavjee, MD, PhD, and Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH). Their argument appears in an essay published September 6 in the New England Journal of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-approach-tuberculosis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:00:01 EST news266057996 The Nobel laureate who helped to discover HIV says there is hope for an AIDS cure following recent discoveries, in an interview with AFP ahead of a global conference on the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-nobel-laureate-discoverer-hiv-sight.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 20 Jul 2012 05:10:01 EST news261979050 International scientists announced Thursday a new push for a cure to AIDS, citing promising research and a three-decade epidemic that is outpacing medications to curb it. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-scientists-urge-fresh-aids.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:50:37 EST news261921030 Deaths from HIV/AIDS are rising in parts of Asia and central Europe and the global response must accelerate, experts said Wednesday after the release of a major report on the world AIDS epidemic. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-unaids-critical-gaps-world-response.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 19 Jul 2012 03:22:45 EST news261886956 A cure for AIDS remains a distant prospect but a host of drug treatments and other advances have fueled fresh hope that new human immunodeficiency virus infections may some day be halted for good. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-high-aids-conference.html HIV & AIDS Sun, 15 Jul 2012 07:20:01 EST news261554553 The public health community has long struggled with how best to reduce HIV infection rates among black Americans, which is seven times that of whites. In a new paper in the journal PLoS ONE, a team of physicians and public health researchers report that African-American clergy say they are ready to join the fight against the disease by focusing on HIV testing, treatment, and social justice, a strategy that is compatible with religious teaching. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-clergy-hiv-faith-friendly-terms.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 16 May 2012 17:00:17 EST news256405835 (AP) -- A pill that has long been used to treat HIV has moved one step closer to becoming the first drug approved to prevent healthy people from becoming infected with the virus that causes AIDS. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-fda-favors-drug-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 08 May 2012 14:48:15 EST news255707287 (AP) -- For many HIV-positive Americans, and those who advocate on their behalf, these are days of anxious waiting as the Supreme Court ponders President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-health-debate-high-stakes-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:18:55 EST news254593127 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. and have become a major concern of public health officials. New research shows that countries around the world are facing similar challenges. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-prevalence-improper-condom-health-issue.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:53:22 EST news249108788 (AP) -- The head of a global health fund on Monday urged Ukraine to step up its efforts to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Europe's largest. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-ukraine-urged-aids.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:20:01 EST news245952518 The HIV Prevention Trials Network 052 study, led by Myron S. Cohen, MD of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year by the journal Science. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-hiv-scientific-breakthrough-year-science.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:00:09 EST news243779772 HIV infections continued to rise in Europe in 2010, but thanks to treatment the number of cases of full-blown AIDS has dramatically declined in recent years, according to a report published Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-hiv-europe-aids-cases-declining.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:11:45 EST news241863094 Thirty years, 30 million deaths and 60 million infections after HIV appeared, medical researchers now have the tools to halt the deadly epidemic. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-year-war-aids-sight.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:36:36 EST news241806983 Brazil said Monday its AIDS epidemic was under control, with a 0.61 percent cut in new cases between 2009 and 2010, although a rise among young homosexuals was a cause for concern. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-brazil-aids.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:20:01 EST news241755032 For doctors confronting the AIDS epidemic, past ambitions always boiled down to two main goals: prevention, or finding ways to protect people not yet exposed to HIV, through vaccines, safe sex education or other means; and treatment, or discovering effective drugs and providing them to people with HIV/AIDS, helping them live longer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-lessons-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:06:11 EST news227534736 In the early days of the AIDS epidemic, a once-rare form of cancer known as Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) emerged as a frequent harbinger of HIV. Its stigma was best illustrated by Tom Hanks, who portrayed a gay man trying to conceal the cancerous skin lesions from his co-workers in the 1993 movie "Philadelphia." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-fsu-scientist-aids-related-cancer.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:02:42 EST news226317733 With the deficiencies in knowledge of tuberculosis -- as well as in the practices, programs and strategies used to combat the disease and co-infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) -- the spread of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis poses a major problem for the health care community. Research in the June issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, however, shows that the use of 18F-FDG positron emission tomography (PET) scans can help to determine earlier if treatment for tuberculosis is working or if the disease is MDR. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-pet-scans-effectiveness-treatment-multidrug-resistant.html Other Tue, 24 May 2011 11:41:35 EST news225456045