HIV & AIDS
A sixth of new HIV patients in Europe 50 or older: study
People aged 50 and older comprise a growing percentage of HIV patients in Europe, accounting for one in six new cases in 2015, researchers said Wednesday.
Sep 27, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Tick saliva may be a secret ingredient to help HIV patients
The black-legged tick -loaded with bacteria causing Lyme disease - may have some good qualities: its spit.
Sep 7, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Cryptococcal meningitis should be classified as a neglected tropical disease, researchers say
Crytococcal meningitis is a deadly invasive fungal infection which affects hundreds of thousands of HIV patients in the late stage of their disease every year.
Jul 25, 2017
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HIV & AIDS
Study offers potential diagnostic and prognostic tools for HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders
UAlberta researchers believe they now have a clearer picture of why people living with HIV so commonly suffer from dementia and other neurocognitive disorders.
Jul 20, 2017
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HIV & AIDS
A surgeon's fight to legalize HIV-to-HIV organ transplants
Peter Stock, MD, PhD, a transplant surgeon at UC San Francisco, considers himself a representative specimen of his profession. "I think we're all typically atypical," he said, by which he means that transplant surgeons thrive ...
Jun 21, 2017
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HIV & AIDS
Financial incentives increased viral suppression in HIV-positive patients in care
Gift cards offered as financial incentives helped to increase viral suppression in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients in a community-based clinical trial in New York and Washington, D.C., two communities ...
Jun 19, 2017
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Health
Tobacco the 'silent killer' of HIV patients, say researchers
Researchers at the University of York have shown that tobacco use is more common among HIV positive individuals than HIV negative individuals.
Jun 1, 2017
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HIV & AIDS
10-year lifespan gain for some HIV patients: study
The life expectancy of HIV-infected people in Europe and the United States has been boosted by a decade since anti-AIDS drugs became available in the mid-1990s, researchers said Thursday.
May 11, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
TB/HIV co-infections up 40 percent across Europe over the last five years
New data released today by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the WHO Regional Office for Europe ahead of World TB Day show that new tuberculosis (TB) cases and deaths in the 53 countries of ...
Mar 20, 2017
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HIV & AIDS
Black Americans still undertreated for HIV
(HealthDay)—Although progress has been made, blacks in America are still being hit harder by HIV/AIDS, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
Feb 3, 2017
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