Patients with cancer who were living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection had increased epigenetic age—a type of biological age defined by DNA methylation patterns—compared with patients with cancer without ...
Nov 18, 2022
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While monkeypox cases are declining in the United States, a new government report shows that patients with weakened immune systems, especially those living with HIV, have been hit particularly hard by the virus.
Oct 27, 2022
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The results of a multi-year initiative aimed at improving HIV health outcomes for Black men who have sex with men (MSM) are published in a new Supplement in the journal AIDS Patient Care and STDs.
Oct 27, 2022
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A Rutgers-led study of nearly 1,350 patients receiving care for HIV at nine different US clinics has identified steps health care teams can take to identify and treat more sexually transmitted infections (STIs):
Oct 11, 2022
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Traditional eligibility criteria differentially exclude Black patients from participating in clinical trials for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), according to a study published online March 22 in the Journal of Clinical ...
Apr 7, 2022
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Even though annual deaths from AIDS are coming down—from a peak of 1.9 million in 2004 to 690,000 in 2020—that's still way too many. In 2020, 214,000 people with AIDS died of tuberculosis (TB), though only about 50% were ...
Feb 10, 2022
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While most people living with HIV have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, younger and Black individuals are hesitant to get vaccinated and have lower vaccination rates, according to a new study by Rutgers ...
Jan 21, 2022
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Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have investigated the effect of infection with COVID-19 on the levels of oxidative stress, oxidant damage and glutathione, the most abundant physiological antioxidant. Compared to ...
Dec 27, 2021
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Ensuring healthcare workers better understand the psychological, social and physical impacts of shame on HIV patients will help improve their medical treatment, a study argues.
Dec 7, 2021
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In the late 1980s, when HIV treatments were first introduced, patients would often develop resistance to those treatments within six months. The introduction of triple-drug treatment regimens in the 1990s was intended to ...
Nov 26, 2021
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