NIH Official: HIV Vaccine Research "Swimming in the Dark" [News]
Monday, July 28, 2008 - 15:07
in Health & Medicine
On July 17, a high-ranking official at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) pulled the plug on a hotly anticipated clinical trial for a government-funded vaccine to combat human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the bug that causes full-blown AIDS. The announcement by Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), was the latest in a series of setbacks in the search for a vaccine the world has been anxiously awaiting for more than two decades. [More]
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