http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Combination therapies for AIDS are becoming increasingly effective, but they cannot protect against other sexually transmitted illnesses. It is unsafe for patients taking antiretroviral drugs to stop using condoms. This is one of the findings of research conducted in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study, which is supported by the SNSF. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-caution-ever-improving-hiv-drugs.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:34:27 EST news273494058 A new study has found that even though HIV diversifies widely within infected individuals over time, the virus strains that ultimately are passed on through heterosexual transmission often resemble the strain of virus that originally infected the transmitting partner. Learning the characteristics of these preferentially transmitted HIV strains may help advance HIV prevention efforts, particularly with regard to an HIV vaccine, according to the scientists who conducted the study. The research was led by Andrew D. Redd, Ph.D., staff scientist, and Thomas C. Quinn, M.D., senior investigator, both in the Laboratory of Immunoregulation of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-heterosexuals-transmitted-hiv-strains-resemble.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:27:49 EST news267359257 (HealthDay) -- Doctors should consider prescribing the HIV prevention pill Truvada to their heterosexual patients who are at high risk for the virus, not just high-risk gay and bisexual men, experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-high-risk-heterosexuals-hiv-pill.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 10 Aug 2012 06:10:01 EST news263794662 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 Various trials examining the use of anti-retroviral drugs in healthy heterosexuals as a way to prevent HIV have shown drastically different results, research showed Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-pills-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:28:07 EST news261250077 Russia in 2011 saw a rise of five percent in the number of new HIV infections to 62,000 cases amid worrying signs that heterosexuals and women are increasingly at risk, its chief doctor said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-russia-hiv-infections.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:46:20 EST news250778774 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 Aging and health issues facing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender baby boomers have been largely ignored by services, policies and research. These seniors face higher rates of disability, physical and mental distress and a lack of access to services, according to the first study on aging and health in these communities. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-lgbt-seniors-harder-age-national.html Health Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:24:43 EST news240668675 Sexual pleasure among young adults (ages 18-26) is linked to healthy psychological and social development, according to a new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study is the first to use a representative population sample of heterosexuals to find a relationship between key developmental assets and sexual pleasure. The findings are published in the June 2011 issue of The Journal of Adolescent Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-links-empathy-self-esteem-autonomy-sexual.html Health Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:42:09 EST news226320114