... help illuminate the complex immune system damage caused by HIV, and the challenges to rebuilding or bolstering ... infected person's immune system.
NIAID's HIV vaccine research program aims to increase ...
... Low doses of human growth hormone can reverse some of the abnormal fat distribution caused by HIV therapy, lowering the risk of cardiovascular disease, but the treatment may produce unnecessary risk ...
... broke dramatically on Monday from a decade of discredited government policies on AIDS, declaring that the disease was unquestionably caused by HIV and must be treated with conventional medicine.
... clarified how two major variants of HIV differ in their ability to cause neurologic complications. The finding, ... always suspected Tat to be a key protein in HIV dementia based on test tube studies. ...
... universal and routine testing for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to help curb the AIDS epidemic. ... ; during last year alone, more than 2 million worldwide died from AIDS, which is caused by HIV...
Despite national prevention programmes, a study has found that shared syringes are the most common mode of HIV transmission in Puerto Rico.
... most likely to develop deadly fungal meningitis, a major cause of HIV-related death. This form of meningitis affects more than 900,000 HIV-infected people globally--most of them in sub-Saharan ...
... -associated nephropathy (HIVAN) is an important cause of kidney disease in HIV-infected patients. Antiretroviral ... risk of kidney failure even in those without HIV. Last year, Dr. Barasch and Nickolas ...
... develop deadly fungal meningitis, a major cause of HIV-related death. This form of meningitis ... M.D., describes a technique for predicting which HIV-infected patients are at greatest risk for developing ...
... yet to find an effective vaccine against HIV, the virus that destroys the immune system and causes AIDS. HIV is perhaps the most adaptive virus ever seen, not only evading the immune system, but also ...
