http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Researchers have moved a step closer to finding a cure for HIV by successfully luring the 'sleeping' virus out of hiding in infected cells. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 04 Mar 2013 07:50:01 EST news281604450 Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found a novel way to engineer key cells of the immune system so they remain resistant to infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-immune-cells-lab-resist-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:00:09 EST news278064133 A long-term follow-up analysis of participants in the Step Study, an international HIV-vaccine trial, has confirmed that certain subgroups of male study participants were at higher risk of becoming infected after receiving the experimental vaccine compared to those who received a placebo. The vaccine used in the study did not contain the HIV virus, but it did contain HIV genes which were delivered to cells using a vector that employed a type of cold virus known as adenovirus serotype 5 (Ad5). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-early-elevated-hiv-infection.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 07 May 2012 11:35:16 EST news255609306 UC Davis Health System researchers are a step closer to launching human clinical trials involving the use of an innovative stem cell therapy to fight the virus that causes AIDS. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-stem-cell-therapy-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 02 May 2012 11:07:53 EST news255175655