A breakthrough raises a moral dilemma
HIV/AIDS treatment should be focused on preventing the disease's spread by administering drugs early, a prominent Canadian HIV researcher said ahead of a global HIV/AIDS conference.
A Canadian HIV researcher said today that treatment as prevention, or should be used worldwide in order to derail the AIDS epidemic. Two HIV studies in Africa revealed July 13 that antiretroviral drugs used in combination with anti-retroviral therapy helps treat HIV and prevents transmission through decreasing contagiousness.
Healthy HIV-free people could reduce their risk of getting the infection if they take a daily dose of antiretroviral drugs used to treat it, two groundbreaking studies have found.
The two studies were conducted in Africa among heterosexual couples in Kenya, Uganda and Botswana found that daily drugs for the sexually transmitted disease reduced infection rates by an average of at least 62 percent when compared with placebo.
AIDS drugs designed to treat HIV can also be used to reduce dramatically the risk of infection among heterosexual couples, two studies conducted in Africa showed for the first time on Wednesday.
Two studies have confirmed that a daily pill containing HIV-combating drugs can be used to prevent infection in the healthy. One of the studies was conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Botswana Ministry of Health and the other was conducted by the University of Washington and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
AIDS drugs designed to treat HIV can also be used to reduce dramatically the risk of infection among heterosexual couples, two studies conducted in Africa showed for the first time on Wednesday.
Casey Anthony may have been exonerated on charges of murdering her daughter, but that doesn't necessarily mean she's free from legal fallout over the child's death.
Two new studies in Africa have found out that, infection with Aids virus can be prevented by daily pills in heterosexual men and women.
The 'first of its kind' deal was negotiated by the U.N.-led Medicines Patent Pool, a partnership that raises money for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, for California-based drugmaker, Gilead Sciences Inc., to allow four of its AIDS drugs to be made by generic drug companies.
Gilead Sciences, the leading maker of HIV drugs, is to share intellectual property rights on its medicines in a patent pool designed to make treatments more widely available to the poor.
The counties suffering from the highest rates of HIV/AIDS are predominantly located in the South, according to an analysis of data from 43 states conducted by USA Today.
In ruling against a petition filed nine years ago asking the DEA to reclassify marijuana for medical use, the federal government gave a weak response.
A study released by the Ministry of Health revealed today that approximately one of three new HIV infections in China are found in homosexual men. HIV was present in almost 20 percent of men in some south-western cities on the mainland, indicating that HIV and poverty living in a big city are positively related.
At 8:55 a.m. Friday, NASA updated its STS-135 Atlantis Launch Blog, saying the ground launch sequencer has been activated. For now, it is monitoring critical commands and systems, but once the countdown reaches T-9 minutes and counting, the program will take over all of the vehicle's critical functions. The boarding process should take a little more than an hour and the hatch will be closed for flight at about 9:21 a.m., according to NASA.
Speaking at a Delhi conference on HIV and AIDS attended by many top officials, India’s health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad described homosexuality as a disease which has come from other countries, and gay sex as unnatural.
Asian stocks climbed and the euro inched higher on Monday after policymakers approved an emergency tranche of funding for Greece, offering a lifeline to the debt-stricken nation while strong U.S. data also boosted demand for risky assets.
Apple's first thousand-dollar app, I am Rich, only lasted a day in 2008
Sleep is essential to human well-being whether on Earth or in the orbit. It is difficult to sleep in a strange place, especially when you are far from home.
The LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community in San Francisco came out of the closet this weekend to celebrate the largest gathering of LGBT people and allies in the United States - San Francisco Pride 2011.
From people with serious concerns to people looking for quick money, everyone seems to be suing Facebook. Following are some of the most frivolous litigation filed against Facebook to date.
