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HIV grows despite treatment, study finds
HIV can continue to grow in patients who are thought to be responding well to treatment, according to research by the University of Liverpool.
Aug 4, 2015
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Potential new HIV therapy seen in immune cells
A research team led by Weill Cornell Medical College scientists has discovered a way to limit replication of the most common form of HIV at a key moment when the infection is just starting to develop. The study, published ...
Jun 29, 2015
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More evidence for possible link between cocaine use and HIV infection
New UCLA research offers further evidence that cocaine use disrupts the immune system, making people who use it more likely to become infected with HIV.
Jun 18, 2015
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Gender difference in vital cell count of HIV patients
Male HIV patients in rural South Africa reach the low immunity levels required to become eligible for antiretroviral treatment in less than half the time it takes for immunity levels to drop to similar levels in women, according ...
May 12, 2015
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Postoperative mortality rates low among patients with HIV prescribed ART
Postoperative mortality rates were low among patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) who are receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART), and those mortality rates were influenced as much by age and poor ...
Feb 25, 2015
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Vaccine-induced CD4 T cells have adverse effect in a mouse model of infection
A study led by investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has found that a vaccine that elicits only CD4 T cells against a mouse model of a chronic viral infection results in an overwhelming—and lethal—inflammatory ...
Jan 15, 2015
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The 'Berlin patient,' first and only person cured of HIV, speaks out
Timothy Ray Brown, long known only as the "Berlin Patient" had HIV for 12 years before he became the first person in the world to be cured of the infection following a stem cell transplant in 2007. He recalls his many years ...
Jan 6, 2015
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HIV vaccines should avoid viral target cells, primate model study suggests
Vaccines designed to protect against HIV can backfire and lead to increased rates of infection. This unfortunate effect has been seen in more than one vaccine clinical trial.
Jan 2, 2015
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Occasional heroin use may worsen HIV infection
Researchers at Yale and Boston University and their Russian collaborators have found that occasional heroin use by HIV-positive patients may be particularly harmful to the immune system and worsens HIV disease, compared to ...
Dec 15, 2014
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Starting treatment soon after HIV infection improves immune health, study finds
HIV-1-infected U.S. military members and beneficiaries treated with antiretroviral therapy (ART) soon after infection were half as likely to develop AIDS and were more likely to reconstitute their immune-fighting CD4+ T-cells ...
Nov 24, 2014
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