Latest Anthony Fauci Stories

Monkeys infected with the deadly Hendra virus responded to a new treatment in which they were given human antibodies, which University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) researchers have called a "major step forward in combating the virus" in a press release announcing the findings. Scientists from the school's UTMB, along with representatives of Rocky Mountain Laboratories, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the world observes the 30th anniversary of HIV/AIDS, experts on the front lines in fighting the global pandemic are confronting a new and unexpected front in the war on this disease -the economic downturn, which has resulted in cuts to HIV prevention, care and treatment programs in the U.S. and poses a significant risk to HIV programs in resource-strained countries in the Caribbean, Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Meeting in...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) – A weakened strain of Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria may be used as a vaccine to prevent or reduce the severity of trachoma, the world’s leading cause of infectious blindness, according to this study conducted on monkeys. "This work is an important milestone in the development of a trachoma vaccine," Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at NIH, was quoted as saying. "If this approach demonstrates...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The nation's war against HIV/AIDS began 30 years ago with reports that young homosexual men began to die from a new disease that was destroying their immune systems. But rather than simply observe this important milestone, the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research is using the 30th anniversary of the AIDS epidemic to convene a major policy summit in Washington that will address the "unfinished business" of the HIV/AIDS research community...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) released a new report, Remembering 9/11 and Anthrax: Public Health's Vital Role in National Defense, featuring more than 30 firsthand, on-the-ground accounts of public health professionals who were directly involved in the response to the September 11, 2001 and anthrax tragedies. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100204/TFAHLOGO) The stories recall...

Another large national organization, The FAIR Foundation, and its 27 member Board of Directors of surgeons, medical directors, dentists and patient advocates, applauds the recent call to Congress by the Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) urging Congress to freeze National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for six months while investigating the NIH's research practices that are "striking working families across America as wasteful, illicit, and in many cases outright...

A special press conference at the 6th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2011) will today feature a panel consisting of researchers from the CDC TDF2 study, the Partners PrEP Study and the HPTN 052 study. They will be joined by Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Gottfried Hirnschall, Director of the HIV Department of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Elly Katabira, IAS 2011 International Chair and...

The FAIR Foundation's President and CEO, Dr. Richard Darling, asks that you decide and states that taxpayers have spent well over one third of a trillion"”yes, trillion"”dollars on HIV/AIDS resulting in its plummeting death rate (99 percent in California). Darling points out that the government's top HIV/AIDS researcher, Anthony Fauci, MD, admitted years ago that their success is "breathtaking" with HIV patients who "look and feel well, and are leading very productive, very...

Paper Gives Details of One of the Most Significant Public Health Battles in History WASHINGTON, March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The nation's war against AIDS began 30 years ago with a report that five gay men in Los Angeles were dying from Pneumocystis Carinii pneumonia, a disease so rare that a handful of cases in a single year is like an epidemic. Now, former Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop -- the official who witnessed these early deaths and charted the nation's policies on...

BURBANK, Calif., Feb. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Will Rogers Institute's annual prize for outstanding contributions to lung research has been awarded to Dr. Anthony Fauci. The $50,000 award was created to honor individuals for extraordinary work leading to advancements in treatment for lung diseases. He is the fourth recipient of the prestigious prize from the Will Rogers Institute. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110209/LA45608) Dr. Fauci has made many contributions to basic...