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News: May 28, 2012
FDA Panel Backs At-Home HIV Test
TUESDAY, May 15 (HealthDay News) -- A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended Tuesday approval of the first HIV test that would give people the results in the privacy of their own home. The 17 panel members were unanimous in v...
FDA Advisers Back Pill toHelp Prevent HIV Infection
THURSDAY, May 10 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisers on Thursday endorsed the use of the drug Truvada as a means to help prevent HIV infection in healthy people at high risk of contracting the AIDS-causing virus. In a se...
FDA Panel Seems to Back Pill to Help Prevent HIV
WEDNESDAY, May 9 (HealthDay News) -- An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration appears to support the use of the drug Truvada as a means to help prevent HIV infection in people at high risk. Those individuals might include highly ...
FDA Panel to Consider At-Home HIV Test
TUESDAY, May 15 (HealthDay News) -- Should Americans be able to buy a test at the drugstore and use it to determine whether they're infected with the virus that causes AIDS? A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel plans to debate this q...
HIV Severity, Treatment Unrelated to Kids' Mental Woes: Study
FRIDAY, Feb. 10 (HealthDay News) -- There's little evidence linking disease severity or antiretroviral treatment with the degree of psychiatric symptoms in HIV-positive children and teens infected around the time of birth, according to a new study...
AIDS Research Holds Promise for Reducing HIV Transmission Rates
THURSDAY, Dec. 1 (HealthDay News) -- The data may at first seem dire: More people are living with HIV/AIDS than ever before in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But researchers say that's actually...
Despite Advances, HIV/AIDS Still Takes Heavy Emotional Toll
THURSDAY, Dec. 1 (HealthDay News) -- For many it's a good news/bad news scenario. People with HIV/AIDS are living longer and healthier lives than ever before, but they still have a chronic disease that's potentially fatal and carries a heavy stigm...
HIV Medication Patch Shows Promise in Early Trial
TUESDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Preliminary research suggests that a patch could deliver an AIDS drug to patients, but it's too early to know if it could work in animals, let alone humans. Still, the findings raise the prospect of a simple wa...
Poor, Urban Heterosexuals at High Risk of HIV: CDC
THURSDAY, Aug. 11 (HealthDay News) -- The HIV infection rate among low-income heterosexuals in 24 American cities with a high prevalence of AIDS is 10 to 20 times greater than in the general U.S. population, a new government report indicates. Two ...
More Evidence That Early Treatment Can Stop HIV's Spread to Partners
MONDAY, July 18 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers on Monday released yet more evidence that early treatment of HIV in an infected heterosexual can protect his or her partner from becoming infected. The study, conducted among 1,763 couples in Africa,...
Drugs May Prevent HIV Spread Among Heterosexuals
WEDNESDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) -- Giving antiretroviral drugs to heterosexuals at high risk of HIV infection can significantly reduce the chance they will develop the AIDS-causing virus, two new studies suggest. "This is an extremely exciting...
30 Years Into the Epidemic, a Generation With HIV Comes of Age
FRIDAY, June 3 (HealthDay News) -- In 1991, the life of a 6-year-old girl in Texas named Danielle began to unravel. First, her father learned that he was infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Her mother went in for screening soon after an...
Edurant Approved To Treat AIDS Virus
FRIDAY, May 20 (HealthDay News) -- Edurant (rilpivirine), in combination with other antiretroviral drugs, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat HIV-1 infection in adults who haven't taken any prior HIV therapy HIV is ...
Report Highlights Shortage of HIV Care Providers in U.S.
FRIDAY, March 18 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. medical system is ill-prepared to cope with the number of Americans now infected with HIV, a new report suggests. Specifically, too few health care providers are adequately trained and experienced in p...
HIV Infection Passed Via Donated Kidney: U.S. Report
THURSDAY, March 17 (HealthDay News) -- A recent case in New York City of HIV transmission between a living kidney donor and a transplant recipient highlights the need to revise national policy on the type and timing of HIV tests used to screen liv...
Burden of HIV Highest for Blacks, CDC Reports
THURSDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Although blacks make up only 13.6 percent of the U.S. population, they account for 50.3 percent of all diagnosed cases of HIV, federal health officials reported Thursday. The rate of HIV diagnosis among black m...
CDC Issues Guidance on Daily Pill to Prevent Infection With HIV
THURSDAY, Jan. 27 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. health authorities on Thursday issued an "interim guidance" to help doctors and patients using Truvada, the once-a-day combination pill that was shown in November to help prevent the spread of HIV in high...
Once-Daily Dose Approved for Prezista
TUESDAY, Dec. 14 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new once-daily dose for Prezista (darunavir), combined with ritonavir to treat people infected with HIV-1, a strain of the virus that causes AIDS. In a news ...
Hair Stylists Mobilize to Snip Away Ignorance of HIV/AIDS
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Could the prevention of HIV infection and AIDS be a comb, fluff and blow-dry away? That's the idea behind an innovative new national outreach effort, Hairdressers Against AIDS, which got its launch Tuesday at ...
Aging With HIV a New Reality for Many Over 50
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 1 (HealthDay News) -- One January day in 1991, career journalist Jane Fowler, then 55, opened a letter from a health insurance company informing her that her request for coverage had been denied due to a "significant blood abnormal...
Daily Pill Lowers Odds for Infection With HIV
TUESDAY, Nov. 23 (HealthDay News) -- A pill a day cut the risk of HIV infection by almost 44 percent in those at highest risk for contracting the virus, namely sexually active gay and bisexual men, a new study finds. The reduction in risk climbed ...
HIV Patients Do Well After Kidney Transplants:Study
THURSDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDay News) -- A large, new study provides more evidence that people infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, do almost as well on the survival front as other patients when they undergo kidney transplants. Up until the...
Aggressive Drug Therapy May Help Slow Spread of AIDS
SUNDAY, July 18 (HealthDay News) - Effective and widespread treatment of HIV disease may also help cut the rate of new infections, researchers report. Since the introduction of powerful anti-HIV drugs known as highly active antiretroviral therapy ...
Many False-Positive HIV Test Results for Those in AIDS Vaccine Trials
SUNDAY, July 18 (HealthDay News) -- Almost half of HIV-negative people who participate in clinical trials for HIV vaccines end up testing positive on routine HIV tests -- even though they're not actually infected, a new study shows. The reason: Th...
New Guidelines Urge Earlier Therapy for HIV Patients
SUNDAY, July 18 (HealthDay News) -- Starting antiretroviral treatment (ART) when an HIV patient has no symptoms can prevent the progressive immune system destruction that leads to AIDS, according to new treatment guidelines released by the Interna...
HIV Hides Out in Bone Marrow Cells
SUNDAY, March 7 (HealthDay News) -- Medications can reduce the level of the AIDS virus in the blood to zero, but HIV doesn't disappear and often roars back when patients stop taking their pills. Now, research is giving scientists new insight into ...
Cyndi Lauper, Lady Gaga Put Spotlight on Women and HIV
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Pop music star Cyndi Lauper believes that girls should still wanna have fun, they just shouldn't overlook their risk of HIV. That's why she and music sensation Lady Gaga are teaming up on a new campaign -- sp...
Vaccine May Prevent TB in People With HIV
TUESDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) -- A new vaccine prevents tuberculosis in people with HIV, a new study shows. Phase III trials of 2,000 HIV-infected people in Tanzania found that the mycobacterium vaccae (MV) vaccine reduced the rate of definite ...
Premature Aging of the Brain Seen in HIV Patients
TUESDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Premature aging is striking the brains of people infected with the virus that causes AIDS, new research suggests. It's not clear if the virus or the drugs that treat it -- or both -- are contributing to the agi...
Drug Combo Blocks HIV Infection in Mice
FRIDAY, Jan. 22 (HealthDay News) -- New research in mice suggests that a commonly used drug combination might protect people from being infected by the AIDS virus through the major routes of transmission. Previous research showed that the drugs co...
AIDS Drugs Don't Need Routine Lab Monitoring
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 9 (HealthDay News) -- In a finding that has implications for how the AIDS virus is treated in Africa, new research suggests that antiretroviral drugs can be given without routine monitoring by lab tests. But tests of immune-system ...
AIDS May Date Back to Ancient Tiger
SUNDAY, Dec. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Early roots of the virus that causes AIDS might be found in a tiger that lived thousands or millions of years ago, new research suggests. It appears the virus took on a bit of a tiger's genetic material, scientis...
A Good Year in the Fight Against AIDS
TUESDAY, Dec. 1 (HealthDay News) -- While the war against HIV/AIDS is still far from over, 2009 could prove to be a watershed year in terms of advances in prevention and treatment, experts say. The view on this World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, does seem a ...
Scientists ID First Human With Gorilla Strain of HIV
SUNDAY, Aug. 2 (HealthDay News) -- For the first time, researchers have found evidence that the AIDS virus traveled from gorilla to human, another confirmation that the disease continues to evolve even as scientists race to vanquish it. French sci...
Immune Systems of AIDS Patients More Prone to HPV Cancers
FRIDAY, July 31 (HealthDay News) -- As their immune system weakens, people with AIDS are at increased risk for human papillomavirus (HPV)-related cancers, a new study has found. It was known that people with AIDS had a greater risk for HPV-associa...
Immune Response May Speed AIDS Progression in Women
MONDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) -- Differences in immune response may explain why HIV infection progresses faster to AIDS in women than in men with similar viral loads, U.S. researchers say. Their study found that a receptor molecule involved in ...
Too Few Americans Get HIV Test Early Enough
THURSDAY, June 25 (HealthDay News) -- Too many Americans with HIV are diagnosed late in the course of their disease and miss out on the optimal benefit of effective treatments, U.S. health officials reported Thursday. As many as 1 million American...
Starting HIV Therapy Earlier Saves Lives
WEDNESDAY, April 1 (HealthDay News) -- Initiating HIV treatment before the patient's immune system is too badly compromised can dramatically improve survival, a new study finds. The finding may help settle a debate among AIDS experts as to whether...
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