HIV & AIDS

Big AIDS meeting's bottom line: More treatment

(AP) — Call it a triple win for fighting the AIDS epidemic: Treating people with HIV early keeps them healthy, cuts their chances of infecting others, and now research shows it is also a good financial investment.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

MRSA cases in academic hospitals double in five years: study

Infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) doubled at academic medical centers in the U.S. between 2003 and 2008, according to a report published in the August issue of Infection Control and Hospital ...

HIV & AIDS

Aging AIDS epidemic raises new health questions

(AP) — AIDS is graying. By the end of the decade, the government estimates, more than half of Americans living with HIV will be over 50. Even in developing countries, more people with the AIDS virus are surviving to ...

Medical research

New proteins inhibit HIV infection in cell cultures

(Medical Xpress) -- Yale Cancer Center scientists have developed a new class of proteins that inhibit HIV infection in cell cultures and may open the way to new strategies for treating and preventing infection by the virus ...

HIV & AIDS

Gates urges more tools, vaccine to end AIDS

AIDS cannot be halted through treatment alone, and more prevention tools, in particular a vaccine, are needed to move seriously toward ending it, philanthropist Bill Gates said Monday.

HIV & AIDS

US donates extra $150 million to battle AIDS

(AP) — Science now has the tools to slash the spread of HIV even without a vaccine — and the U.S. is donating an extra $150 million to help poor countries put them in place, the Obama administration told the world's ...

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