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HIV Returns In Two “Cured” Patients

A very disappointing setback. Two men whom Boston researchers reported in July had been cleared of HIV after receiving bone marrow transplants have had the virus return, the lead researcher announced Thursday. The patients, both of whom had been living with HIV for years, had each received bone marrow transplants several years ago to treat the blood cancer lymphoma. The …

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FDA Approves New Hep C Drug

Via press release from the CDC: Today, the FDA approved an important new treatment for chronic hepatitis C. The drug, sofosbuvir, is a major advance in the treatment of a disease that affects approximately 3 million Americans and causes more than 15,000 deaths in the U.S. annually. Today marks a landmark advance in the treatment of hepatitis C, opening up …

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Radioimmunotherapy To Cure HIV?

From the Radiological Society of North America: Researchers have used radioimmunotherapy (RIT) to destroy remaining human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected cells in the blood samples of patients treated with antiretroviral therapy, offering the promise of a strategy for curing HIV infection. Results of the study were presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Highly …

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ASAP Science On 3D Printing

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Computer-Designed Synthetic Molecule Prevents HIV From Replicating In Cells

The tech site IO9 reports: European researchers have used a computer to design small synthetic molecules capable of attacking the deadly AIDS virus where it hurts the most: its ability to produce the genetic material required for replication. It’s the first time in history this has ever been done. The novel designer molecules work by blocking the virus’ ability to …

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Board: Gynecologists May Treat Men

The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology has reversed a September directive that barred its members from treating men for anal cancer. Some gynecologists have been treating men due to expertise gained via cervical pap smears. Like cervical cancer, anal cancer is usually caused by the human papillomavirus, or HPV, which is sexually transmitted. This type of cancer is rare, …

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FDA Zaps Online Genetic Testing Firm

The FDA has ordered the genetic testing company 23andMe to cease selling its products. A high profile effort to make consumer-oriented genetic testing commonplace was derailed Monday when the FDA told Mountain View-based 23andMe to stop selling its personal DNA analysis kits, claiming that the $99 tests might be based on bad science. The agency pointedly said that 23andMe, which …

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President Obama Signs Bill To Lift Ban On Organ Transplants Between HIV+ People

Chris Johnson reports at Washington Blade: President Obama signed into law on Thursday afternoon a bill approved by Congress with significant bipartisan support that lifts the ban on the donation of organs from HIV-positive people to others with HIV. In a statement, Obama said he signed the legislation, called the HIV Organ Policy Equity Act, or HOPE Act, to provide …

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HIV Specialists Issue New Guidelines

Saying that most people being treated for HIV are now living normal lifespans, an American medical association that specializes in HIV/AIDS care has issued new guidelines that focus on illnesses that may be exacerbated by anti-retroviral therapy. The Human Immunodeficiency Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America updated its HIV care guidelines include recommendations for screening for diabetes, …

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ASAP Science: Fresh Vs Frozen

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HAWAII: Geneticist Testifies To Blow Away Claims About Choosing To Be Gay

From the Wikipedia page for Dean Hamer: Hamer obtained his BA at Trinity College, CT, and his PhD from Harvard Medical School. He was an independent researcher at the National Institutes of Health for 35 years, where he directed the Gene Structure and Regulation Section at the U.S. National Cancer Institute. He has won numerous awards including the Maryland Distinguished …

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ASAP Science: Can Stress Kill You?

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Setback In HIV Cure Research

Via Johns Hopkins: Just when some scientists were becoming more hopeful about finding a strategy to outwit HIV’s ability to resist, evade and otherwise survive efforts to rid it from the body, another hurdle has emerged to foil their plans, new research from Johns Hopkins shows. In a cover-story report on the research to be published in the journal Cell …

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ASAP Science: Horrifying Parasites

You probably shouldn’t watch this before breakfast.

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Foot Cream Kills HIV In Cultures

We see a lot of “breakthrough” stories about HIV, but this certainly one of the more unusual ones. Via CNET: A common drug that dermatologists prescribe to treat nail fungus appears to come with a not-so-tiny side effect: eradicating HIV. In a study performed at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, not only does the drug Ciclopirox completely eradicate infectious HIV …

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NEW YORK CITY: Gay Man Who “Couldn’t Catch AIDS” Commits Suicide At Age 66

Stephen Crohn, the openly gay man who had been dubbed by the press as the “man who couldn’t catch AIDS” due to his genetic mutation, committed suicide last month at the age of 66.  Crohn’s passing was revealed on Friday by his sister. His boyfriend was dying of a disease without a name. Beginning in 1978, Stephen Crohn cared for …

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Simian Vaccine Shows Promise For HIV

The Independent reports: A vaccine designed to tackle SIV, the monkey equivalent of HIV, may have successfully cleared the virus from infected animals, paving the way for research into a HIV vaccine for humans. It was previously thought that both the human and simian immunodeficiency viruses could be managed with antiretroviral therapies, but not eradicated. However, a study published in …

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Brass Ones

According to a just published study, the size of a man’s testicles can predict how involved he’ll be in the upbringing of his children. Researchers at Emory University, US, said those with smaller testicles were more likely to be involved with nappy changing, feeding and bath time. They also found differences in brain scans of fathers looking at images of …

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Canadian HIV Vaccine Advances

From Ontario’s Western University: Sumagen Canada Inc and Western University announced today that the Phase I Clinical Trial (SAV CT 01) of the first and only preventative HIV vaccine based on a genetically modified killed whole virus (SAV001-H) has been successfully completed with no adverse effects in all patients. Antibody production was also boosted after vaccination.  Developed by Dr. Chil-Yong …

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