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(Medical Xpress)—Dr. Anita Koshy sees a common and typically harmless brain parasite as a potential key to unlocking secrets of neurobiology that can be used to intervene in diseases such as Alzheimer's and multiple sclerosis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-brain-parasite-potential-neurobiology-secrets.html Medical research Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:50:02 EST news290158051 A simple in-home training program for caregivers can give children of AIDS patients a better shot at prosperity by improving their early-childhood development, according to a study led by a Michigan State University researcher. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-kids-aids-patients-leg.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:10:53 EST news284825445 (AP)—The head of Saudi Arabia's AIDS charity foundation says the country saw 1,233 new cases of the disease last year. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-cases-aids-saudi-arabia-year.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:02:54 EST news284752968 A new discovery about the malaria-related parasite Toxoplasma gondii—which can threaten babies, AIDS patients, the elderly and others with weakened immune function—may help solve the mystery of how this single-celled parasite establishes life-long infections in people. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-proteins-chronic-disease-toxoplasma-infections.html Medical research Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:19:44 EST news284656765 (AP)—A New Jersey-based generic drug maker has agreed to pay $45 million to resolve criminal and civil liability charges for improperly marketing its weight-gain drug to frail seniors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-nj-drugmaker-civil-criminal-fines.html Medications Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:00:01 EST news281717343 A team of scientists from Canada, Thailand and Morocco have found that DHEA-S may prevent neurocognitive impairment that affects a significant percentage of AIDS patients. In a report appearing in the February 2013 issue of The FASEB Journal, they describe how a network of steroid molecules found in the brain, termed "neurosteroids," is disrupted during HIV infection leading to brain damage. This suggests that treatment with one of these steroid molecules, called DHEA-S, may offset the disruption caused by the virus to prevent or reduce brain damage. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-neurosteroid-brain-injury-hivaids.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:39:09 EST news278851136 (AP)—Brazilian health officials say doctors will be required to notify authorities of every HIV case in the nation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-brazil-tracking-hiv-cases.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:43:37 EST news275848996 Four-year-old Carlos, who makes a lengthy trip every two weeks with his teenage aunt to a special clinic in El Salvador's capital, has no notion of the cruel stigma that comes with his HIV diagnosis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-stigma-central-america-hiv-positive-kids.html HIV & AIDS Sun, 02 Dec 2012 03:00:01 EST news273638666 (AP)—In the early 90s when South Africa's Themba Lethu clinic could only treat HIV/AIDS patients for opportunistic diseases, many would come in on wheelchairs and keep coming to the health center until they died. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-south-africa-hivaids.html HIV & AIDS Sat, 01 Dec 2012 06:16:37 EST news273564984 A proposed new treatment to help HIV/AIDS patients suffering from Kaposi’s sarcoma, the most common form of cancer in people with HIV, is now one step closer to becoming a reality. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-hivaids-patients-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:07:05 EST news264852419 The cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a member of the herpesvirus family. Although most people carry CMV for life, it hardly ever makes them sick. Researchers from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and from the USA have now unveiled long term consequences of the on-going presence of CMV: Later in life, more and more cells of the immune system concentrate on CMV, and as a result, the response against other viruses is weakened. These research results help to explain why the elderly are often more prone to infectious diseases than young people. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-long-term-consequences-chronic-virus-infection.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:00:07 EST news264345769 Community pharmacies with specially trained staff to provide HIV services can help HIV-infected individuals be more compliant with their essential antiviral drug regimens and hence improve patient outcomes. Users of HIV-specialized Walgreen pharmacies across the U.S. had significantly greater adherence to and persistence with their therapeutic drug regimens according to a study published in AIDS Patient Care and STDs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-specialized-hiv-pharmacies-treatment.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:34:47 EST news264159280 Indian pharmaceutical tycoon Yusuf Hamied revolutionised AIDS treatment more than a decade ago by supplying cut-price drugs to the world's poor -- and now he wants to do the same for cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-india-firm-cancer-drug-price.html Medications Sun, 17 Jun 2012 06:16:44 EST news259132397 (Medical Xpress) -- Only about 75 percent of HIV/AIDS patients in the United States remain in care consistently, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania published online this week in AIDS. The study of patients across the United States is the first to provide a comprehensive national estimate of HIV care retention and information about patients who are most likely to continue their treatment over time. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-hiv-patients-dont.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 06 Mar 2012 06:09:14 EST news250236542 Research conducted at University of Nevada, Reno and licensed through the University's Technology Transfer Office is featured in the technology transfer publication "Better World Report" for a remarkable second year in a row. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-life-saving-diagnostic-hiv-patients-featured.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:00:01 EST news242103131 China is due to hold its first AIDS Walk -- a fundraising walkathon already popular in the US -- on the Great Wall, organisers said Wednesday, as the nation steps up its fight against the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-china-aids-great-wall.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:25:00 EST news241853094 (AP) -- China will have about 780,000 people infected with the AIDS virus by the end of this year, state media reported Wednesday, with most having contracted it through heterosexual sex. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-china-hiv-cases-year.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:49:15 EST news241850947 (AP) -- The world's biggest financier in the fight against three killer diseases says it has run out of money to pay for new grant programs for the next two years - a situation likely to hit poor AIDS patients around the world. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-global-fund-world-health-halts.html Other Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:12:16 EST news241373521 Most AIDS patients, when diagnosed with a fungal infection known simply as cryptococcosis, are assumed to have an infection with Cryptococcus neoformans, but a recent study from Duke University Medical Center suggests that a sibling species, Cryptococcus gattii, is a more common cause than was previously known. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-cryptococcus-infections-misdiagnosed-aids-patients.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:35:52 EST news234117337 The Food and Drug Administration has cleared a new diagnostic test that will help save the lives of hundreds of thousands of AIDS patients stricken with cryptococcosis, a fungal meningitis. The test was developed through a collaboration between Tom Kozel, professor of microbiology of the University of Nevada School of Medicine, and Sean Bauman, president and CEO of IMMY (Immuno-Mycologics) of Oklahoma. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-fda-immy-university-nevada-reno.html Medications Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:00:08 EST news233413141 In sub-Saharan Africa, only about one third of patients who test positive for HIV but are not yet eligible for antiretroviral treatment remain in care until they become eligible and start treatment. Some patients never return for the results of their initial CD4 count (a prognostic and treatment eligibility biomarker); some disappear between having their initial CD4 count taken and becoming eligible for HIV treatment; and others with CD4 counts that indicate that they are eligible for treatment do not return to start receiving medications. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-one-third-hiv-positive-patients-treatment.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:46:15 EST news230316234