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 ...

HIV & AIDS

HIV is not a super-spreader of drug-resistant tuberculosis

While the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pandemic fuels tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks, it does not drive the development and transmission of multidrug-resistance in TB patients as previously suspected, according to a study ...

Cardiology

HIV causes structural heart disease

HIV causes structural heart disease according to research presented at EuroEcho-Imaging 2013 by Dr Nieves Montoro from Madrid, Spain. The findings support the introduction of cardiovascular screening in all HIV patients, ...

HIV & AIDS

Gut bacteria affect immune recovery in HIV patients, study finds

An international study coordinated by Spanish research institutes has found that gut bacteria play a role in the immune recovery of HIV patients. Researchers from the University of Valencia (UV) have taken part in a study ...

HIV & AIDS

PrEP: A shield against AIDS

"It's magic," said Francois, smiling. "Every time I take a pill I think about the people who aren't so lucky as to have this option."

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