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Government Mistrust Deters Older Adults from HIV Testing
January 29, 2013 One of four people with HIV/AIDS is 50 or older, yet they are far more likely to be diagnosed when they are in the later stages of infection. Government mistrust and conspiracy fears are deeply ... > full story -
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Personalized Plans to Address Barriers to HIV Drug Adherence Boost Chances of Successful Therapy
January 29, 2013 HIV patients who participated in an intervention that helped them identify barriers to taking their drugs properly and develop customized coping strategies took a significantly greater amount of ... > full story -
Two-Fold Higher Incidence of Non-Melanoma Skin Cancers for HIV Patients
January 29, 2013 HIV-positive patients have a higher incidence of non-melanoma skin cancers, according to a new study. Specifically, basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas occur more than twice as often among ... > full story -
Safer Way to Vaccinate? Polymer Film That Gradually Releases DNA Coding for Viral Proteins May Beat Traditional Vaccines
January 28, 2013 Researchers have described a new type of vaccine-delivery film that holds promise for improving the effectiveness of DNA ... > full story -
Penicillin, Not the Pill, May Have Launched the Sexual Revolution
January 28, 2013 The rise in risky, non-traditional sexual relations that marked the swinging '60s and advent of readily available contraception actually began as much as a decade earlier, during the conformist '50s, ... > full story -
HIV-Like Viruses in Non-Human Primates Have Existed Much Longer Than Previously Thought
January 24, 2013 Viruses similar to those that cause AIDS in humans were present in non-human primates in Africa at least five million years ago and perhaps up to 12 million years ago, according to new study. Until ... > full story -
Fast, Low-Cost Device Uses the Cloud to Speed Up Diagnostic Testing for HIV and More
January 24, 2013 Biomedical engineering professors have taken their innovative lab-on-a-chip and developed a way to not only check a patient's HIV status anywhere in the world with just a finger prick, but also ... > full story -
'Achilles Heel' of Key HIV Replication Protein Found: Could Potentially Stop HIV from Progressing to Full-Blown AIDS
January 24, 2013 Researchers may have found an "Achilles heel" in a key HIV protein. They showed that targeting this vulnerable spot could stop the virus from replicating, potentially thwarting HIV infection from ... > full story -
Retrovirus in the Human Genome Is Active in Pluripotent Stem Cells
January 23, 2013 A retrovirus called HERV-H, which inserted itself into the human genome millions of years ago, may play an important role in pluripotent stem cells. The discovery, which may help explain how these ... > full story -
Immune Cells Engineered in Lab to Resist HIV Infection, Study Shows
January 22, 2013 Researchers have found a novel way to engineer key cells of the immune system so they remain resistant to infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The new approach, a form of tailored gene ... > full story
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