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The Motley Fool
September 24, 2009
Brian Orelli |
Drugmakers' HIV Treatments Live On Companies that make HIV drugs could lose billions of dollars in revenue if an effective vaccine is developed. All drug-company investors need to keep an eye on up-and-coming drugs from competitors that could take market share.   |
Fast Company
August 8, 2011
Kate Rockwood |
AIDS Vaccine Conference Despite billions in annual research dollars, the quest for an AIDS vaccine remains elusive. |
Chemistry World
February 9, 2007
Victoria Gill |
Africa's First Large-Scale HIV Vaccine Trial The first large-scale clinical trial of an HIV vaccine will involve around 3000 participants in five selected sites in South Africa. It will compare the effectiveness of the vaccine at reducing HIV infection compared to a placebo. |
The Motley Fool
September 25, 2007
Brian Orelli |
Cold HIV Vaccine Gets Frozen Phase 2 clinical trials of Merck's HIV vaccine were frozen, leaving the door open for other drugmakers that have vaccines of their own in early trials. Investors, take note. |
Wired
January 2003
Richard Martin |
Testing the First AIDS Vaccine Medical establishment, government, and Genentech be damned -- Don Francis has never stopped believing. Now he's about to finish testing the first human AIDS vaccine. |
Chemistry World
September 3, 2009
Sarah Houlton |
New HIV vaccine hope A team of scientists in the US has discovered two new antibodies that could lead to an HIV vaccine. |
BusinessWeek
April 1, 2010
Bennett & Randall |
Will an AIDS Pill a Day Keep the Virus Away? Drugmaker Gilead is betting the one-pill PrEP treatment will slow the virus' spread - as are some of the world's top health agencies and philanthropists. |
AskMen.com
Dave Golokhov |
Truvada With more and more studies finding successful AIDS prevention, it looks like we're getting closer to finding a cure. |
Chemistry World
August 4, 2008
Pete Mitchell |
Vaccine failures shake up HIV research Prospects for an HIV vaccine have receded with the July decision by the US government National Institutes of Health (NIH) to cancel trials of its main vaccine candidate. |
American Family Physician
May 15, 2002 |
HIV in Women What are HIV and AIDS?... How do women become infected with HIV?... Is HIV infection different in women and men?... What precautions can be taken to avoid getting HIV during sex?... What should I do if I think I may be infected?... |
Chemistry World
July 8, 2010
Sarah Houlton |
Antibodies spark HIV vaccine hopes These cross-reactive broadly neutralising antibodies bound to and neutralised more than 90 per cent of the HIV strains they were tested against. |
Salon.com
June 9, 2000
Arthur Allen |
Heart of darkness A team of Los Alamos researchers traces AIDS back to the 1930s, blowing a hole in the most recent theory about its origin. |
American Family Physician
July 15, 2004
Joel E. Gallant |
HIV Counseling, Testing, and Referral By the year 2005, the CDC seeks to achieve the following: reduce annual new HIV infections from the current estimated 40,000 cases to 20,000 cases through the use of interventions such as counseling, HIV testing, and referral |
Scientific American
October 2008
John Rennie |
Hope and the Fight against HIV The battle must continue, even if 25 years of research have disappointed. |
Chemistry World
December 3, 2014
Maria Burke |
Ebola vaccine passes first safety hurdle The vaccine was developed collaboratively by scientists at the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and at Okairos, a biotechnology company acquired by GlaxoSmithKline. |
| AskMen.com |
1 Million Swine Flu Cases? Swine flu has infected as many as 1 million Americans, U.S. health officials said Thursday, adding that 6 percent or more of some urban populations are infected. |
Chemistry World
December 13, 2007
Lewis Brindley |
Semen Protein Raises HIV Infection Risk Scientists have identified a protein in human semen that increases the risk of HIV infection up to 100,000 fold. The discovery could provide new drug targets and strategies for combating the global AIDS epidemic. |
Chemistry World
August 20, 2014
Maria Burke |
Doctors turn to experimental Ebola treatments The emergency use of an experimental medicine is highly unusual, but the WHO has declared the Ebola outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. |
Chemistry World
January 29, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Ebola vaccine shown to be safe in humans GlaxoSmithKline's experimental Ebola vaccine is capable of triggering an immune response in humans, according to a new study. |
Chemistry World
August 5, 2015
Emma Stoye |
Vaccine raises hopes of an end to Ebola A Phase III trial for a candidate Ebola vaccine has shown extremely encouraging results in Guinea, demonstrating complete protection for all those who were vaccinated. |
American Family Physician
July 15, 2004 |
HIV Infection - How to Lower Your Risk A consumer-oriented brochure discussing the many ways to lower the risk of getting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and where to go for help. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2006
Ben Harder |
Seeking Immunity Pathogens like West Nile virus show no respect for borders. But a new class of vaccines may soon keep them in check. |
Scientific American
April 10, 2006
Christine Soares |
Turning Yellow Yellow fever shot confers long-lasting immunity, a trait that medical researchers hope to transfer to other kinds of vaccines. |
Chemistry World
September 26, 2007
Victoria Gill |
HIV Vaccines 'Will Not Work' Just days after US drug firm Merck revealed its leading HIV vaccine candidate had flopped in clinical trials, a leading immunologist has predicted that many other vaccines in the pipeline will also fail because their design is similarly flawed. |
Chemistry World
September 24, 2015 |
A new hope in HIV prevention New microbicide products could turn the tide against Aids for those who need it most: women in sub-Saharan Africa. Dinsa Sachan reports. |
Salon.com
December 1, 2000
Fiona Morgan |
It's World AIDS Day ... again Americans with insurance now improve with new drugs, but the disease is on a rampage across the rest of the world... |
American Family Physician
January 1, 2004 |
Hepatitis B Infection What is hepatitis B virus?... How can I tell if I have HBV infection?... What happens after HBV infection?... What health problems can chronic HBV infection cause?... How can I protect my liver if I have chronic HBV infection?... How can HBV infection be prevented?... etc. |
Salon.com
October 20, 2000
David Tuller |
The buzz about blow jobs A study now underway hopes to isolate risk factors of transmitting HIV through oral sex... |
Chemistry World
October 23, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
US agency fast-tracks Ebola vaccine development The US Department of Health and Human Services is fast-tracking tests on an Ebola vaccine by providing $5.8 million under a one-year contract with the Maryland-based biotech company Profectus BioSciences |
Salon.com
June 30, 2000
Sabin Russell |
Circumcision may cut AIDS risk Researchers have routinely dismissed the idea that the procedure can stem the spread of HIV. That may be about to change. |
BusinessWeek
January 9, 2006
Carol Matlack |
Preventing The Pandemic France's Sanofi Pasteur is already signing contracts for an avian flu vaccine. |
Salon.com
August 21, 2001
David Horowitz |
The AIDS obstructionists As the AIDS epidemic spins out of control, special interest groups are preventing one of the only things that can work -- mandatory testing... |
BusinessWeek
June 28, 2004
Amy Barrett |
Jonas Salk: He Put An End To Polio In the '50s, Dr. Jonas Salk moved with lightning speed to develop and test a vaccine for polio. |
BusinessWeek
September 12, 2005
John Carey |
A Better Way To Ambush AIDS? HIV increasingly outwits today's drugs even as side effects take a toll. But Panacos Pharmaceuticals' experimental drug opens the door to a new line of attack. |
American Journal of Nursing
March 2010
Bradley-Springer et al. |
Every Nurse Is an HIV Nurse The evolution of HIV infection into a chronic disease has implications across all clinical care settings. Every nurse should be knowledgeable about the disease in order to provide high-quality care to people with or at risk for HIV. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2012
Nancy Ross-Flanigan |
A Safer Shot at TB While trying to understand tuberculosis bacteria genes, researchers discovered a safe way to shut down the bacteria. |
American Family Physician
January 1, 2001 |
HIV Infection and Pregnancy-Protecting Your Baby and Yourself Why should I be tested for HIV if I am pregnant?... How do babies get HIV?... What can I do to keep my baby from getting HIV?... What antiretroviral medicines should I be taking?... Should I have an elective cesarean section?... |
Popular Mechanics
January 8, 2010
Erin McCarthy |
How to Stop a Daybreakers-Style Vampire Epidemic As far-fetched as the "disease" may be, there are certain steps doctors, scientists and officials always take when analyzing an outbreak. |
Managed Care
September 2006
Thomas Morrow |
Remarkable Work Went Into Designing the New HPV Vaccine The recently approved human papillomavirus vaccine is a prime example of how science is beating back the advance of old diseases. |
Popular Mechanics
December 1, 2006
Ben Harder |
Fighting HIV by Building a New Killer In the fight to find a cure for AIDS, researchers have invented a viral double agent on a mission to seek out where HIV hides. |
Chemistry World
July 29, 2015
Maria Burke |
Malaria vaccine approval first marred by efficacy question mark After decades of research, a malaria vaccine has finally been given the green light by a regulatory agency. But with limited efficacy and questions over the vaccine's cost, its future remains unclear. |
Chemistry World
January 19, 2015
Maria Burke |
Roadmap to fast track Ebola vaccine development A global group of experts has developed a 'roadmap' to help the health community fast track an Ebola vaccine. |
Scientific American
November 2008
Jessica Wapner |
Cancer Vaccine: Looking Beyond Tumor Size Proponents see hope in changing cancer vaccines' bad reputation |
Chemistry World
July 17, 2012
Andrew Turley |
First HIV drug approved as prevention US regulators have for the first time approved a drug to be used to prevent HIV infection -- as opposed to treating it. |
Salon.com
July 17, 2000
Nina Teicholz |
When drugs take a holiday Could taking a break from protease inhibitors be the secret to treating AIDS? A new case of a 40-year-old man in Philadelphia shows it's possible. |
BusinessWeek
April 1, 2010 |
The Case for PrEP The acronym stands for pre-exposure prophylaxis, meaning the use of therapeutic drugs to prevent infection. In the absence of an HIV vaccine, here are three reasons PrEP may be the next best thing. |
Chemistry World
September 1, 2014
Maria Burke |
Experimental Ebola drug 'impressive' in animal trials In the hunt for a treatment for Ebola, a new study has shown that monkeys given the experimental drug ZMapp all survived infection with the virus. |
ifeminists
December 1, 2004
Carey Roberts |
The Unfolding AIDS Scandal at the UN Every day, 8,500 men and women die from the modern Black Death that we call AIDS. Most of those deaths could be avoided if the UN took a practical approach that is based on science, not ideology. And pitting women against men is hardly the answer. |
BusinessWeek
August 2, 2004
Arnst & Einhorn |
Why Business Should Make AIDS Its Business Some multinational companies are taking baby steps to control the AIDS in their workforce, but more needs to be done. |
Salon.com
February 4, 2000
Emily Bass |
A new urgency With his country at the epicenter of an AIDS epidemic, the special advisor to South Africa's health minister quietly makes his first trip to an important research conference. |
