MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'aids research'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:31:01 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4934086&cid=t_138508_87_f&fid=36224&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.wsjonline.com%2F%7Er%2Fwsj%2Fhealth%2Ffeed%2F%7E3%2Fof5_LMc8knk%2F This month marks 30 years since the first case reports were published about HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. A new report analyzes the factors that helped patient advocates drive research into and drug development for that disease, and tries to figure out whether there are lessons to be learned for other disease advocates. The paper, called “Back to Basics: HIV/AIDS Advocacy as a Model for Catalyzing Change” and co-authored by consulting-firm HCM Strategists and the nonprofit group FasterCures, is based on in-person and telephone interviews with activists, scientists, government officials and policy makers involved with the HIV/AIDS advocacy movement. It credits patient advocates with helping to implement regulatory changes that sped up access to investigational drugs and with ... WSJ.com: Health Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4934086 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:50:41 +0100 4934086 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4734484&cid=t_138508_135_f&fid=35277&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.aac.org%2Findex.php%2F2011%2F04%2F18%2Fdisappointing-results-prompt-early-end-to-fem-prep-study-of-pill-based-prep-in-african-women%2F The recent success of the iPrEx study has raised hopes that pill-based pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) will become an important new tool for preventing HIV transmission.  However, because the iPrEx study included only men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women, many HIV researchers and advocates have been awaiting the results of other studies to see whether pill-based PrEP can also reduce the risk of HIV infection in other groups, including mixed-HIV-status couples, heterosexual women, and injection drug users. The hopes that pill-based PrEP might be a widely applicable prevention tool suffered a major setback on April 18, when Family Health International (FHI) announced its decision to end the FEM-PrEP study due to disappointing early results.  After reviewing the study’s i... AIDS Action Committee's Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4734484 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:25:37 +0100 4734484 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3595552&cid=t_138508_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fthe-daily-do-gooder-mary-j-blige-at-amfars-cinema-against-aids%2F Today’s celebrity do-gooder is Mary J. Blige: The singer headlined at amFAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research’s Cinema Against AIDS event at this year’s Cannes International Film Festival. According to looktothestars.org, the event has raised $6.7 million for AIDS research and charities. photo: WENN.com Post from: BlissTree Daily Do-Gooder: Mary J. Blige at amFAR's Cinema Against AIDS (Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3) Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3595552 Tue, 25 May 2010 13:34:10 +0100 3595552 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3122176&cid=t_138508_135_f&fid=35280&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstillarriving.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fi-am-but-one-light.html MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU ALL! Last night I went to a Candlelight Service at church (I will talk about my new church in a bit) and had one of the most beautiful and touching experiences of my life. The Chicago Children's Choir was singing Stille Nacht (Silent Night), when they got through the first verse ushers moved through the aisles and lit congregants candles. As this process was going on lights in the church went out until the only light was that of our candles. It was during this time that I completely stopped and let myself be taken by the stillness and was at absolute peace. For me symbolically all the tiny candle flames reminded me of the struggle and those who fight for HIV/AIDS related causes. My one flame in that huge church didn't really make that large of a di... Still arriving. blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3122176 Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:13:00 +0100 3122176 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2828171&cid=t_138508_87_f&fid=36224&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.wsjonline.com%2F%7Er%2Fwsj%2Fhealth%2Ffeed%2F%7E3%2FbeQVrUXsLoA%2F AIDS researchers are excited about today’s vaccine trial results — not because they think this particular vaccine will be used widely in patients, but because they hope that unpacking the promising but modest study results will lead them to develop stronger, more effective vaccines. To that end, they’ll be trying to answer a fundamental question: Why did the vaccine protect some people but not others? To find an answer (or answers), scientists will look closely at the differences between people who got the vaccine and were infected anyway and those who received the vaccine and didn’t get infected, Salim S. Abdool Karim, an AIDS researcher affiliated with Columbia University in New York and the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, told the Health Blog. Maybe... WSJ.com: Health Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2828171 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:45:55 +0100 2828171 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1991911&cid=t_138508_87_f&fid=36224&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.wsjonline.com%2F%7Er%2Fwsj%2Fhealth%2Ffeed%2F%7E3%2FbvahTps85a0%2F Two of the great hopes for AIDS prevention — vaccines and microbicides — have yet to pan out. So researchers are looking more closely at the hiding-in-plain sight prevention option: The antiretroviral drugs used for more than a decade to treat the disease. Take a country like South Africa, where 18% of the population has HIV, and the disease is transmitted primarily by heterosexual sex. Offer voluntary testing every year to everyone 15 and over, and start antiretroviral drugs immediately for everyone who tests positive. Within just a few years, you’d radically slow the spread of the disease — from some 15 cases per thousand people per year, to less than one case per thousand people per year. That, anyway, was the result of an analysis run by some WHO AIDS experts a... WSJ.com: Health Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1991911 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:25:41 +0100 1991911 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1853886&cid=t_138508_87_f&fid=36224&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.wsjonline.com%2F%7Er%2Fwsj%2Fhealth%2Ffeed%2F%7E3%2FElYrlBXrCZs%2F Luc Montagnier (left) and Robert Gallo. (AP Photo) Half of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, two French researchers who discovered HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The other half went to Harald zur Hausen, who discovered that papilloma viruses cause cervical cancer. Notably absent from this list is Robert Gallo, who is often credited as the co-discoverer of HIV. But, despite public statements to the contrary, many scientists have sided with Montagnier and his colleagues as the primary discoverers. Gallo, who runs the Institute for Human Virology at the University of Maryland, told the Associated Press it was “a disappointment” not to be honored along with Montagnier and Barre-Sinoussi. But he added th... WSJ.com: Health Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1853886 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:59:27 +0100 1853886 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1147019&cid=t_138508_87_f&fid=36224&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.wsjonline.com%2F%7Er%2Fwsj%2Fhealth%2Ffeed%2F%7E3%2F214997098%2F Part of viruses’ genius is their simplicity. Nothing more than a little genetic information wrapped in a protein coat, they hijack their human hosts, putting our cells to work to create more virus. But the reliance on host cells also creates a possible weakness: Figure out which host proteins the virus depends on, and you may be able to create a drug that will stop the virus from replicating itself. In this week’s Science, a team of Harvard researchers took a step toward doing that with HIV by identifying roughly 270 proteins that HIV needs to survive. Previously, only a few dozen of the proteins used by HIV had been identified. The Harvard team added hundreds more to that list by undertaking a massive screening program. They created some 21,000 cell colonies, each of which la... WSJ.com: Health Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1147019 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:45:41 +0100 1147019 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1062887&cid=t_138508_97_f&fid=35050&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmaGazette%2F%7E3%2F193090302%2Fhiv_is_on_the_rise_in_teens.html Over the last decade there has been a dramatic increase in the number of teens who have contracted HIV. Between 2001 and 2005 there was a 20% increase in the amount of teens reported to have contracted HIV. The question many people are asking is why? HIV has also been on the rise for younger and older adults. Many possibilities have been stipulated as the reason in propos to the increase in the teenage population. For example better drugs now keep HIV patients healthier for longer which. This has been proposed to have eliminated the “scare factor” involved with contracting the deadly virus. This may be the case, but some research has shown that fear is not always the best deterrent, especially for teens. Teens are in their prime, in the age of feeling like they can do... PharmaGazette blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1062887 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:00:46 +0100 1062887 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=790577&cid=t_138508_135_f&fid=35263&url=http%3A%2F%2Fronhudson.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F08%2Fblog-post_5142.html The Community Advisory Board and Staff of the Duke University AIDS Research and Treatment Center are hosting a forum on 22 August, 2007. This forum is to provide an update from this year's International Conference on AIDS and to discuss issues relating to HIV and aging.I know that there are many long-term survivors worldwide who are seeking answers about their specific issues as they continue to face emerging side-effects and disease progression. If anyone has questions that they would like me to ask at this forum, I will do so. Simply email me your questions and I will compile a list for the panel.Please note that the area code for the number to RSVP is 919. Click the invitation to enlarge it for reading. Categories: HIV AIDS HIV/AIDS Duke+University AIDS+Research AIDS+treatment Community... 2sides2ron blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=790577 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:34:00 +0100 790577