...the human history. Infectious diseases continue to ravage the globe: tuberculosis and HIV kill about 1 million people a year, while malaria takes an additional 400,000 lives. But it has...
...chomp on a precise bit of the cone, then they may have the ability to fine-tune vaccines for any number of infectious agents, including HIV. But first, there's the not-small...
...can't command a five-year-old to give on-demand sputum samples, and there are other diseases such as HIV that make it difficult to produce the sample," said Khatri. Even more problematic...
...work at GSK [is] to impact lives -- we're the biggest vaccine manufacturer in the world, we have leading positions in HIV and respiratory, and we want to build up...
...health is to examine the causes of adult mortality, such as noncommunicable diseases, HIV, cardiovascular disease and transportation injuries. Little international assistance targets these noncommunicable diseases. When the researchers measured...
...treatment. Meanwhile, some cities already have clean-needle exchanges, to prevent the spread of HIV and other diseases. Safe-injection facilities, which can help prevent overdoses, are coming into play in Europe...
...in the U.S. is probably HIV/AIDS in the 1980s with gay people, intravenous drug users and Haitians who were blamed for the disease's spread and who faced severe discrimination on...
...imperative to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV. So obstetricians reluctantly included pregnant women with HIV in their study of antiretroviral treatments, since the risk of the drugs were thought to...
...the University of Virginia Medical School. Like HIV, influenza, and many other viruses, Zika travels around enveloped in a membrane (recall that viruses are not cells). To invade a cell,...
...Disease Control and Prevention says that PrEP reduces the risk of getting HIV from sex by more than 90 percent and by 70 percent for intravenous drug users. “Unfortunately, HIV...
...familiar with whooping cough or diphtheria — diseases that in 1920 combined to kill more than 20,000 Americans. Polio has been eliminated in the United States. HIV is no longer...
...remain big problems in developing countries: "untreated ear infections that lead to perforated eardrums and often deafness; HIV infections that cause repeated ear and throat disorders; congenital neck masses; ingested...
...the LGBTQ+ health training was when he was in medical school from 2009-2013 -- in all four years, amounting to only a single HIV/AIDS diagnostic question on one exam. Today,...
...second act, he served as director of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS department. And for a third, he became president of Dartmouth College. And from there, he took the lead...
...have RNA encased in a protein shell. The team identified 11 RNA viruses with a high number of Neanderthal-inherited genes, including HIV, influenza A and hepatitis C. These viruses likely...
...people die each year in low- and middle-income countries from poor-quality health care. That’s five times greater than the annual global deaths from HIV/AIDS — and three times more deaths...
