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Findings from perinatal HIV prevention study in Uganda are valid

A Ugandan drug trial's findings that the AIDS medication nevirapine is effective and safe in preventing HIV transmission from mother to unborn child during birth were well-supported, according to a new, independent analysis by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

12 Apr 2005

Pharmacies to sell syringes without a prescription

Beginning Tuesday, April 12th, pharmacists in San Francisco will be able to sell sterile syringes without a prescription when legislation passed by the Board of Supervisors and signed by Mayor Newsom last month goes into effect.

12 Apr 2005

Framework agreement creates safe blood for China

In an important step to help combat the spread of HIV/AIDS in China, The People's Republic of China's Ministry of Health signed a groundbreaking framework agreement with Washington, D.C.-based Safe Blood International Foundation (Safe Blood International), an organization dedicated to providing a safe blood supply for developing countries to help them stop the spread of HIV/AIDS and other blood-borne diseases at the Ministry of Health in Beijing.

12 Apr 2005

Swedish team find gene with link to major diseases

In an exciting new discovery, which could affect millions of people, scientists from the Karolinska Institute and the Centre for Molecular Medicine (CMM) in Stockholm, Sweden, have identified a gene which links autoimmune diseases with cardiovascular diseases.

12 Apr 2005

NIH accused of sexual intimidation and safety violations

National Institute of Health (NIH) medical officer Betsy Smith has testified in a recent civil case that women at the NIH have faced sexual intimidation and repeated disregard of their concerns for the welfare of patients in AIDS experiments.

11 Apr 2005

$10 million from Bill Clinton to fight AIDS

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton announced this week that his foundation will donate $10 million towards treatment for children with AIDS in the developing world.

11 Apr 2005

FDA approves Ambien CR for treatment of insomnia

Sanofi-aventis announced today that it has received an approvable letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Ambien CR (zolpidem tartrate extended release) CIV. Ambien CR is the controlled-release formulation of zolpidem, the world's leading sleep aid.

11 Apr 2005

HIV treatment-experienced patients set high standards for therapy success

Patients who have previously failed at least two anti-HIV regimens continue to have high standards for their treatment success, according to a survey commissioned by the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR).

11 Apr 2005

Now revealed that Salk polio vaccine was a team effort

The cure for polio came as a result of the collaboration between Thomas Francis Jr. and Jonas Salk.

10 Apr 2005

Panel in US disputes drug trial allegations

Medical experts have been forced to defend a study conducted in Uganda and called HIVNET 012 that led to the widespread use of a single AIDS drug called nevirapine to protect newborns, after allegations by Dr. Jonathan Fishbein, a National Institutes of Health researcher, that the research was flawed and the conclusions were unfounded.

10 Apr 2005

Test of new HIV drug

A study under way at UAB aims to determine whether the first of a new class of HIV drugs is safe and effective in preventing the virus from entering healthy cells.

10 Apr 2005

Data which showed that nevirapine effectively prevents many infants from contracting HIV from their infected mothers, are sound and reliable

10 Apr 2005

First identified gene to link autoimmune diseases with cardiovascular diseases

A common gene variant has been identified as the risk factor behind a number of common diseases by research scientists at Karolinska Institutet and the Centre for Molecular Medicine (CMM), Stockholm, Sweden. Up to a quarter of the population could be affected.

10 Apr 2005

Teens feel most stress before HIV-infected parent dies

A UCLA AIDS Institute study has discovered that teens of HIV-infected parents are at the highest risk for depression and self-destructive behavior before their parent's death, not after. Published in the April issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, the findings emphasize the importance of providing support services to HIV-affected families promptly after a parent's diagnosis and through the subsequent illness — not only after the parent's death.

7 Apr 2005

Experts available for comment on controversy over a nevirapine

The controversy over a nevirapine clinical trial conducted in the late 1990s threatens to limit the use of a drug that has saved hundreds of thousands of babies in the developing world from HIV infection, according to experts from the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).

7 Apr 2005

Integrating HIV prevention and care in Africa

On April 15, 2005 the UCLA AIDS Institute will host a full day symposium on AIDS in Africa entitled Integrating HIV Prevention and Care in Africa: Existing Challenges and Innovative Solutions.

6 Apr 2005

When treating malaria is a waste of money

Africa may fail to benefit from new and better drugs for malaria because of massive misdiagnosis of the disease by health workers and patients.

5 Apr 2005

International commitment to reduce maternal and child deaths by 2015 will not be met

An international commitment to reduce maternal and child deaths by 2015 will not be met at the current pace unless rapid and coordinated action is taken now, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned.

5 Apr 2005

HIV/AIDS impacts on population dynamics and economic growth

Top officials at the United Nations Commission on Population and Development, at its yearly meeting are focussing on the negative effects of HIV/AIDS on population dynamics, including population losses and decreased life expectancy, as well as the pandemic's links to increased extreme poverty, stalled economic growth and poor reproductive health in many parts of the world.

5 Apr 2005

Discrimination against AIDS patients to be stopped in India

India's Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has told an AIDS conference that his government plans to introduce a law to stop discrimination against people infected with the deadly virus.

4 Apr 2005