Latest AIDS Stories
NEW YORK, April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The founder and CEO of the Batey Relief Alliance, Ulrick Gaillard, joins the rank of Dominican personality, investigative journalist and television producer Nuria Piera, to receive from the Rotary Club of New York Rotary International's prestigious honor--Paul Harris award. The ceremony was held on April 29, 2013 at the Harvard Club in New York City. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120120/DC36161LOGO ) For sixteen years,...
Therapeutic Discovery Program initiated in the Netherlands, executed along U.S. guidelines for regulatory submission AMSTERDAM, April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cannabis Science, Inc. (OTC: CBIS) announced today the initiation of preclinical development characterization of CS-TATI-I following the execution of contractual retention of vendor labs located in the Amsterdam Life Science Cluster. Under the direction of Richard Ogden, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, and Christopher...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online On Thursday, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) stopped clinical trials of an HIV vaccine after an expert review panel found the drug is largely ineffective in stopping the contraction of HIV. The vaccine was intended to stimulate the immune system into preparing a defense against three sub-types of HIV. However, it instead showed a "non-statistically significant increase in HIV acquisition among volunteers in the investigational...
BETHESDA Md., April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TNI BioTech, Inc. (OTC PINK: TNIB) is pleased to announce that they have named Terry Lierman from the Summit Global Ventures as a strategic advisor to the company. In this capacity, Mr. Lierman will provide strategic and tactical direction to improve operational productivity for the company's growth plans. "Terry Lierman is renowned on capitol hill for both his political skills and his passionate support of improved healthcare and funding...
May 11, 2013 Grand Hotel Bristol, Stresa, Italy ATLANTA, April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Inhibikase Therapeutics, Inc., an emerging leader in infectious disease, announced today that it will update the scientific and medical community on the development program for IkT-001Pro. IkT-001Pro, a host-directed tyrosine kinase inhibitor in an extended release formulation, is intended to clear JC polyomavirus (JCV) infection, the causative agent of Progressive Multifocal...
- HarborPath Partners Now Include Gilead Sciences, Merck and ViiV Healthcare - COLUMBIA, S.C., April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- HarborPath, an organization which provides a single point of access to HIV/AIDS medications through patient assistance programs, welcomes Gilead Sciences as a participating company. Gilead joins Merck and ViiV Healthcare as the third pharmaceutical company to support HarborPath since its launch in July 2012. "With Gilead's support of this pilot program, we...
TITUSVILLE, N.J., April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Janssen Therapeutics, Division of Janssen Products, LP, today announced the 16 organizations that will receive a charitable contribution from its Linking In-Need Communities to Care (LINCC(TM)) Initiative. The LINCC(TM) Initiative is part of the Janssen Therapeutics commitment to improving access to care in underserved communities for those whose lives are impacted by HIV/AIDS. The recipients for the 2012-2013 cycle each received...
Targeted education, prevention and testing critical MINNEAPOLIS, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- According to statistics released by the Minnesota Department of Health, 315 confirmed new cases of HIV were reported in Minnesota during 2012. The 315 new cases represent an 8 percent increase from 2011, which was the first year of decline in nearly a decade. The Minnesota AIDS Project, the leading source for HIV information and services in Minnesota, believes that this data...
LA JOLLA, Calif., April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, over 23.5 million people suffer from over eighty different types of known autoimmune diseases. Unfortunately, treatment for those suffering from non-curable autoimmune diseases has been limited to: Slowing the Spread of the Diseases Controlling the Symptoms To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click...
FLORHAM PARK, N.J., April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Armada Health Care (Armada), the nation's largest specialty pharmacy group purchasing and channel management organization, is pleased to announce that the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has chosen Armada to be its primary purchasing partner. Armada and AHF will work together to leverage the vast industry coverage and combined purchasing volumes for HIV/AIDS specialty medications. "We consider the new partnership with AHF a great...
Latest AIDS Reference Libraries
AIDS is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published 18 times yearly by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, London, UK. It was established in 1987 and is the official journal of the International AIDS Society. It covers all aspects of HIV and AIDS research, including basic science, clinical trials, epidemiology, and social science. As of May 2012, the editor-in-chief is Jay A. Levy. AIDS has been cited as the most read journal in its area of science and has the highest impact of all...
Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), also known as African Green Monkey virus, is a retrovirus able to infect at least 33 species of African primates. SIV has been present in monkeys and apes for at least 32,000 years, probably longer. Strains from two of these primate species have crossed the barriers into humans resulting in HIV-2 and HIV-1. Contraction involves contact with the blood of chimps that are often hunted for bushmeat in Africa. SIV infections appear in many cases to be...
Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) one of seven currently known human cancer virus, is also the eighth human herpesvirus. Kaposi's sarcoma, caused by the virus, is common in AIDS patients, primary effusion lymphoma, and some types of multicentric Castelman's disease. Moritz Kaposi discovered the blood vessel tumor, in 1872, which would eventually be names Kaposi's sarcoma. It was originally though that KS was of Jewish and Mediterranean origins until it was found to be common...
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a lentivirus, causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) which is a condition in humans were the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections. Infection is transferred through bodily fluids where HIV is present as both free virus particles and within infected immune cells. The four most common routes of infection are unsafe sex, contaminated needles, breast milk, and transmission from an infected mother to her...
