Tag: HIV

November 16, 2023

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved LetsGetChecked’s at-home testing system for chlamydia and gonorrhoea. The De Novo authorisation by the agency means the device is the first FDA-approved home sample collection system for the two sexually transmitted […]

October 12, 2023

Shanghai Kehua Bio-engineering (KHB) has obtained an EU class D in vitro diagnostic regulation certification for rapid tests covering the company’s diagnostic kit for HIV (1/2) antibody (Colloidal Gold) V2. KHB’s HIV diagnostic kit tests for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 […]

March 13, 2023

Public health crisis communications plans have the power to improve outcomes, reduce long-term healthcare costs, and save lives. These plans should convey crucial health information to impacted groups with recommendations on how and when to seek care and reduce spread. […]

April 5, 2022

New clinical research shows that lamivudine, a reverse transcriptase inhibitor widely used in HIV therapy, stopped disease progression in 25% of patients with fourth-line metastatic colorectal cancer. Findings from the trial, published in Cancer Discovery, raise the possibility of an […]

February 16, 2022

Using powerful tools and techniques developed in the field of structural biology, researchers at the University of Washington and The Scripps Research Institute have discovered new details about the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV. The findings bring into focus the basic […]

November 30, 2021

Among people with HIV worldwide who are receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART), adults are getting closer to the global target of 95% achieving viral suppression, but progress among children and adolescents is lagging and long-term viral suppression among all groups remains […]

October 25, 2021

The concentration of the proteins S100A8 and S100A9 in serum increases during an inflammatory response. Patients infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) show elevated serum levels of S100A8 and S100A9. Additionally, the S100A8/A9 complex is considered a […]

September 8, 2021

People living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have a higher risk of sudden cardiac death than people who do not have HIV, especially if the virus is not well-controlled or if they have other heart disease risk factors, according to […]

August 12, 2021

States with low initial use of HIV-prevention drugs are continuing to fall behind in usage among people at risk for the disease, a new study finds. Researchers, clinicians and advocates had hoped that late-adopting states would see a surge in […]

June 22, 2021

The highly infectious nature of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is largely due to its affinity for mutations that continue to evolve and emerge throughout the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Several novel features of SARS-CoV-2 […]

November 30, 2020

The nonprofit International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) is pleased to announce the World Health Organization’s (WHO) prequalification of the dapivirine ring, a monthly vaginal ring to reduce women’s HIV risk. This designation from the WHO confirms that the ring meets […]

August 28, 2020

Designing a vaccine starts with finding the right ingredients. Every infectious agent has molecules, called antigens, that the immune system could potentially recognize and attack. So scientists must carefully consider which antigens should go into a vaccine. Scientists know a […]

February 10, 2020

Despite similar rates of enrollment into medical care, youth with HIV have much lower rates of viral suppression–reducing HIV to undetectable levels–compared to adults, according to an analysis funded by the National Institutes of Health. Among more than 1,000 youth, […]

January 23, 2020

This week, a groundbreaking paper has been published in the journal Nature, that describes how a team of Carolina based scientists has developed an approach that overcomes a major hurdle preventing the establishment of a cure for HIV. Currently, antiretroviral […]

January 7, 2020

A single dose of an antibody-based treatment can prevent HIV transmission from mother to baby, new nonhuman primate research suggests for the first time. The findings are being published in the journal Nature Communications. When that single dose is given […]

December 20, 2019

A new analysis has found that exposure to toxic air, water, soil and chemicals kills 8.3 million people across the world each year. The landmark research was published by the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution on Wednesday and it […]

November 21, 2019

An experimental HIV vaccine developed by scientists at Scripps Research and the nonprofit vaccine research organization IAVI has reached an important milestone by eliciting antibodies that can neutralize a wide variety of HIV strains. The tests, in rabbits, showed that […]

November 20, 2019

Kellen Willhite was 24 when he learned he’d been exposed to HIV. What followed was, as he describes it, a second trauma: trying to obtain the drugs that could save him before it was too late. In 2016, a day […]

September 18, 2019

Infective endocarditis occurs when bacteria or fungi in the blood stream enter the heart’s inner lining or valves. Nearly 34,000 people receive treatment for this condition each year, of which approximately 20% die. One of the major risk factors for […]

July 25, 2019

A team of scientists led by Texas Biomed’s Assistant Professor Smita Kulkarni, Ph.D. and Mary Carrington, Ph.D., at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, published results of a study that pinpointed a long noncoding RNA molecule which influences a […]