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In a move sure to stir controversy, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended on Monday that a more aggressive approach to treating high cholesterol in children should be implemented, even if it means prescribing …

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Texas Man Faces Life in Prison for HIV Assault
May 29, 2009 – 12:47 pm | One Comment

Philippe Padieu, 53, was convicted on Wednesday of six counts of aggravated assault after knowingly infecting six women with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS.  The Collin County, Texas, jury is currently in …

UN: AIDS Drug Manufacturing in Africa Saves Lives, Eases Economic Woes
April 22, 2009 – 11:00 pm | 2 Comments

To best fight the ravages of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa, it must begin manufacturing its own supply of generic drugs, according to Michel Sidibé, a 57-year-old resident of the African nation, Mali.  Sidibé has …

HIV+ Idaho Man Faces Life In Prison For Deliberately Infecting Others
March 16, 2009 – 1:41 am | No Comment

Kerry Thomas, 45, has been to prison twice for deliberately infecting others with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and now he’s out again on parole.  This concerns the Ada County, Idaho, deputy prosecutor enough that …

HIV Gene Therapy Study Hailed as ‘Major Advance’
February 18, 2009 – 6:18 am | 7 Comments

The February 15 issue of the medical journal, ‘Nature Medicine,’ carries the full report of a clinical trial on a gene therapy for treating human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).  The therapy has proven so promising it …

HIV Prevention Pill Nearing End of Trial
January 23, 2009 – 11:33 am | 3 Comments

In June, people on three continents will know if the pills they’ve been taking to prevent HIV infection were the real thing or placebos.  As the test of tenofovir, said to be an HIV prevention …

Did Marrow Transplant Cure AIDS?
November 14, 2008 – 6:22 am | No Comment

That’s the question abuzz in the medical community as doctors around the globe discuss a bone marrow transplant, performed in Berlin, that is said to have cured the patient of AIDS. Twenty months after …

AIDS, Cancer Researchers Share Nobel Prize
October 13, 2008 – 11:54 am | One Comment

Recent announcement of the winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine marks, for some, the end of a long-running controversy surrounding which team of researchers are to be credited with discovering the AIDS virus. …

HIV/AIDS May Have Originated in 19th Century
October 7, 2008 – 6:25 am | 3 Comments

Painstaking research using modern genetic technologies has placed the origin of the HIV/AIDS pandemic sweeping the world today at somewhere between 1884 and 1924, much earlier than the 1930 point of origin previously estimated.  The …

CDC: US AIDS Epidemic Far From Over
September 16, 2008 – 5:23 am | No Comment

Statisticians for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had predicted that about 40,000 new cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), would be …

CDC Wants More HIV Testing Done in US
August 10, 2008 – 11:22 am | No Comment

The diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a life-altering moment that comes with some really big decisions to make.  One of the most important of those decisions is the course of medical treatment …