http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Big names in medicine are set to give an upbeat assessment of the war on AIDS on Tuesday, 30 years after French researchers identified the virus that causes the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-aids-science-lexicon.html HIV & AIDS Sat, 18 May 2013 02:50:01 EST news288061166 Replacing the combination of brand-name, antiretroviral drugs currently recommended for control of HIV infection with soon-to-be-available generic medications could save the U.S. health care system almost $1 billion a year but may diminish the effectiveness of HIV treatment. A study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators, appearing in the January 15 Annals of Internal Medicine, examines the potential impact of such a change. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-hiv-treatment-strategy-billion-annually.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:00:01 EST news277381002 A Chinese study published on World AIDS Day on Saturday says drugs used to curb HIV in infected people also help protect their uninfected partner, but far less effectively than other research has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-aids-chinese-flag-drugs-as-prevention.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:49:21 EST news273527351 WHAT: Further analyses of the landmark NIH-funded treatment-as-prevention study (HPTN 052) have found that providing antiretroviral treatment to HIV-infected individuals earlier, when their immune systems are healthier, delays AIDS-related health events, such as chronic herpes simplex virus and tuberculosis, as well as death. Additionally, researchers found that earlier HIV treatment is also cost-effective because it increases survival, prevents costly opportunistic infections and averts transmission of the virus to uninfected individuals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-landmark-hiv-treatment-as-prevention-additional-health.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:46:53 EST news262619200 Small but significant breakthrough studies on people who have been able to overcome or control HIV were presented Thursday at a major world conference on ways to stem the three-decade-old disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-paths-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:36:09 EST news262542964 More than eight million people -- a record number in low- and middle-income countries -- are now taking antiretroviral drugs to treat HIV, according to data released Wednesday by UNAIDS. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-hiv-drugs-mn-people-needy.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:38:54 EST news261826694 A new once-daily pill combining three antiretrovirals and a booster molecule is a safe and effective alternative to two widely used drug regimens for newly diagnosed HIV-positive adults who have had no previous treatment. The findings of two large international randomized trials published in this week's Lancet also indicate that the new "Quad" pill is faster acting, doesn't have the neuropsychiatric side effects associated with other combinations, and could improve compliance with treatment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-once-daily-quad-pill-hiv-safe.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:30:01 EST news260123746 A new study uses a mathematical model to predict the potential impact of expanding treatment to discordant couples on controlling the global HIV epidemic-- in these couples one partner has HIV infection and the other does not. The research conducted at ICAP at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior at University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) is the first to predict the effect of the expansion of such treatment in couples on the HIV epidemic in certain African countries. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-hiv-treatment-couples-significantly-global.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:28:09 EST news238156082 Scientists have now provided revolutionary tools to roll back HIV but only a major funding boost, supported especially by emerging giant economies, will determine the outcome, experts say. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-funding-gap-imperils-science-exploits.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:12:22 EST news230299930 Men and women infected with HIV reduced the risk of transmitting the virus to their sexual partners by taking oral antiretroviral medicines when their immune systems were relatively healthy, according to findings from a large-scale clinical study sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-hiv-infected-people-antiretrovirals-significantly-transmission.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 12 May 2011 11:43:02 EST news224419358 New findings from University of Utah School of Medicine researchers show that the retrovirus called XMRV is not present in the blood of patients who have chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). These findings contradict a widely reported 2009 Science study that linked CFS to XMRV. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-comprehensive-link-xmrv-retrovirus-chronic.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 04 May 2011 15:02:26 EST news223740124