HIV & AIDS
Don't believe the hype – we are a long way from an HIV cure
HIV has infected over seventy million people but only one of them has been cured: Timothy Ray Brown.
Dec 16, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Did Columbus really bring syphilis to Europe?
(HealthDay)—A new study is intensifying the debate over whether Christopher Columbus or his crews brought syphilis from the New World to Europe, setting the stage for hundreds of years of illness and death.
Dec 3, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Staph 'gangs' share nutrients during infection, study finds
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria can share resources to cause chronic infections, Vanderbilt University investigators have discovered. Like the individual members of a gang who might be relatively harmless alone, they turn deadly ...
Oct 16, 2014
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HIV & AIDS
More bad news in fight against persistent HIV reservoirs
July has been a particularly trying month for HIV/AIDS researchers as they mourned the loss of colleagues killed in a militant attack and received new reports of the virus' remarkable tenacity.
Jul 22, 2014
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HIV & AIDS
Research may be beating HIV, but a vaccine remains distant
Three decades since the onset of the infection in a global population, HIV care and treatment is looking very different. Given the difficulties involved, it is remarkable that having developed good treatments, the global ...
Jul 11, 2014
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Surgery
New method to restore skull after brain surgery appears to reduce complication rates
Johns Hopkins surgeons report they have devised a better, safer method to replace bone removed from the skull after lifesaving brain surgery. The new technique, they say, appears to result in fewer complications than standard ...
Feb 3, 2014
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Surgery
Early studies show microspheres may prevent bone infections after joint replacement
Currently more than 1 million knee replacements and hip replacements are performed each year in the United States, and with the aging population, the number of total joint replacements is expected to grow.
Jan 31, 2014
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Medical research
More than skin deep: New layer to the body's fight against infection
The layers of skin that form the first line of defence in the body's fight against infection have revealed a unanticipated secret.
Nov 18, 2013
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Medications
Imbruvica approved for mantle cell lymphoma
(HealthDay)—Imbruvica (ibrutinib) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), a rare but aggressive form of blood cancer.
Nov 13, 2013
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Immunology
Immune system marker tied to improved bone marrow transplant outcomes
The risk of death following bone marrow transplantation can be reduced about 60 percent using a new technique to identify bone marrow donors who make the most potent cancer-fighting immune cells, according to research from ...
Sep 16, 2013
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