AIDS Weekly articles from March 2000

AIDS Weekly archives from March 2000

Three Types of HAART-Related Fat Distribution Identified.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- There are three distinct types of fat distribution abnormalities associated with highly active antiretroviral therapy, according to an ongoing study from France. Fat distribution abnormalities have been...

Gene Therapy Halts HIV Replication in Cells from Infected Patients.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- A study conducted in cell cultures, headed by a research group at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has shown that inserting a beneficial gene into blood immune cells taken from patients...

Nutritional Counseling Has Dramatic Impact on Weight Loss.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Nutritional supplementation and dietary counselling can lead to a dramatic reduction in AIDS wasting, a report from Switzerland suggests. Weight loss and protein malnutrition are frequent complications in...

Young Gay Men Ignore HIV Warnings.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- A Canadian study offers alarming evidence that young gay men are increasingly engaging in unprotected sex. "The incidence of HIV infection is unacceptably high among this cohort of young gay and bisexual...

Impact of HCV on HIV Mortality Studied.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Hepatitis C virus infection has shown very little impact on HIV related deaths in a long-term multicenter study, but that finding could change as AIDS patients live longer. Hepatitis C (HCV) has a high...

Testosterone Supplementation Useful in AIDS-Hypogonadism.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Testosterone supplementation can be useful in men who experience depression due to AIDS associated hypogonadism. Hypogonadism is prevalent among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected men, in whom...

Link Between Erythroderma and HIV Suggested.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- A South African study suggests a link between erythroderma and HIV infection in black patients. Erythroderma has protean underlying causes. There have been isolated case reports suggesting an association...

HSV-2/Genital Herpes Linked to HIV in South Africa.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Herpes simplex virus-2 infection and genital herpes are strongly associated with HIV infection in South Africa. While genital ulcers are a risk factor in HIV infection, the association of specific agents...

gp120-Depleted HIV-1 Antigen Stimulates in vitro Immune Function.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- In vitro immune function was realized after vaccination with an inactivated, gp120-depleted HIV-1 antigen with immunostimulatory oligodeoxynucleotides, researchers from the United States reported. "We...

Herpesvirus 8 Gene May Play a Pathogenic Role.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- The human herpesvirus 8 gene KS-SM enhances the expression of a receptor for vascular endothelial growth factor, according to researchers working in the United States. Homologs of the Epstein-Barr virus...

Thalidomide Useful Treatment for Mouth Sores in AIDS Patients.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Thalidomide could be an alternative to conventional drug therapy for the treatment of oral ulcers in AIDS patients. Researchers in Spain report cases of severe, oral, non-specific ulcers in AIDS patients...

Cardiopulmonary Function Measures HIV Progression.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Measuring cardiopulmonary function appears to be a good way to assess HIV disease progression in HIV infected children, according to a report from the Texas Children's Hospital. Infants with HIV-1 can be...

HIV Progression Markers Vary with Age.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- The most important determinants of HIV progression in infants and young children appear to vary with age. Infants with perinatally acquired human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection have widely...

Results Announced from Phase II Clinical Trial of Remune in Thailand.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- The Immune Response Corporation, Carlsbad, California, announced that the results from a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of Remune alone versus adjuvant alone in 297 Thai HIV-1 infected subjects were...

HIV Positive Women Show Abnormal Cytology.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Women who are positive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) tend to show a progression toward abnormal results on their Pap smears, scientists reported at the 7th Conference on Retroviruses and...

Novel Vector Expresses Multiple HIV-1 Antigens.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- A novel vaccine strategy incorporates several HIV-1 accessory genes as part of a single, multi-component immunogen, researchers from the United States reported. DNA vaccination generates both humoral and...

HIV/SIV Vaccine Studied in Primate Model.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- HIV/SIV can be attenuated through the gain of IkappaB-(alpha)S32/36A, a proteolysis-resistant inhibitor of NF-kappaB, reported researchers from Italy. "Live-attenuated SIVs deleted of accessory genes such...

HIV Vector Could Lead to Targeted Gene Transfer.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- An HIV vector could be useful for targeted gene transfer into CD4(+) T cells. This finding was presented by researcher Koichi Miyake and colleagues from Tokyo, Japan's Nippon Medical School at the...

Lentiviral Vectors May Further HIV Vaccine Search.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Lentiviral vectors expressing viral or tumor antigens may further the search for an HIV vaccination strategy. The life cycle of HIV provides many potential intervention strategies for gene therapy. In this...

AIDS Alliance Calls for New HIV Prevention Strategies.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- At a special Congressional hearing in San Francisco, California, on February 14, 2000, Dorothy Mann, board member of AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth & Families, called for new strategies and funding to help...

HIV Emergency Treatment IND and Phase II/III Trials Filed.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Hemispherx Biopharma, Inc., announced that it has filed for HIV Emergency Treatment IND and Phase II and Phase III trials with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The company's new HIV Emergency...

Celebrities Urge African Americans to Get Tested for HIV.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, surrounded by other prominent leaders, called for more grassroots initiatives and government action to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic within the African...

AIDS Grant Program Initiated.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Bristol-Myers Squibb Immunology (BMSI), Princeton, New Jersey, launched the BMS Community Leaders Fund, a multi-million dollar grant program designed to provide financial support for organizations and...

Grants Help Scientists Seek New Attack on AIDS.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Compounds found in coconuts, shampoo, and even saliva will be tested as possible agents for preventing AIDS infection using $875,000 in new grants, the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR) said on...

Collaboration Will Work on Vaccine.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Targeted Genetics Corp. is collaborating with two institutions to develop a vaccine to prevent AIDS, the three concerns said in a joint statement on February 16, 2000. Seattle, Washington-based Targeted...

U.S. Company Patents Key HIV Gene.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- A biotechnology company set up to mine the human genome for targets for new drugs said on February 26, 2000, it had patented a gene considered key to HIV infection and was working on therapies using the gene....

NewsRx.com Daily Health, Medical, and Biotech News Site Opens at www.NewsRx.com with $30 Million Giveaway.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- After months of anticipation by current subscribers, NewsRx.com has launched its daily health and medical news site with tiered content for professionals and consumers at www.NewsRx.com. "NewsRx.com...

Ex-CDC Official Denies Wrongdoing in HIV Vaccine Deal.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- A former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official on February 17, 2000, denied any wrongdoing in the allocation of $8 million to study an HIV vaccine made by the company that now employs him....

Plight of Africa's AIDS Orphans Worsening.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- The number of AIDS orphans in Africa is set to rise even if infection rates drop, increasing the burden on women and older people, a senior United Nations official said. "Our fear is for the future. Even...

AIDS-Hit Botswana Urged To Change Sex Behavior.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 6, 2000... 2000 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Botswana president Festus Mogae urged his citizens on February 16, 2000, to change their sexual behavior to halt the spread of AIDS and show compassion to those suffering from the deadly disease. ...

CD8 T-Cell Response Linked to HIV Protection in Heterosexuals.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- HIV specific CD8 T-cell responses may be involved in protection against heterosexual HIV transmission, according to a study following prostitutes in Nairobi, Kenya. "Understanding how individuals with a...

Impact of Ritonavir on Fat Distribution Studied.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers at Seattle's University of Washington studied the effect of ritonavir on lipid and post-heparin lipase activities in persons not infected with HIV. Intensive therapy aimed at HIV infection...

Long-Term Zidovudine Linked to Reduced Dementia.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Zidovudine therapy for extended periods was associated with dementia-free survival of HIV infected patients in a Canadian study. Researcher P.G.A. Cornelisse and colleagues from the University of British...

Ritonavir Regimen Superior to Nucleoside Analog.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- A ritonavir-containing regimen was associated with superior virologic response compared with a dual nucleoside analog regimen in a study from New York's SUNY Stony Brook. Although protease inhibitors are...

Hyperinsulinemia Occurs in Absence of Protease Inhibitor Use.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Significant hyperinsulinemia occurs in HIV infected patients even without the use of protease inhibitors. Fat redistribution in the setting of protease inhibitor use is increasingly common and is...

Secondary HIV Infections Still Declining.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Secondary HIV infections among mixed gender sexual partners appear to be continuing their decline, according to a study conducted in Atlanta, Georgia. Information about the sexual behavior of HIV infected...

Drug Routes in Asia See HIV Increase.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Overland heroin trafficking routes in Asia are seeing an explosion of HIV infection. Burma produces approximately 60% of the world's heroin and Laos is the third leading producer. Recent outbreaks of...

Differences in TNF-(alpha) Secretion May Impact Disease Course.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Differences among HIV-1 variants in the ability to elicit tumor necrosis factor-alpha secretions may have a direct impact on HIV disease course, according to a report from Baltimore's Johns Hopkins...

Brain Involvement Still Common in AIDS Deaths.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Despite the widespread use of highly active antiretroviral therapy, brain pathologies are still commonly seen in people who die of AIDS. Researcher E. Masliah and colleagues analyzed changes in the...

HPLC Assay for Common Protease Inhibitors Developed.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers from the University of Minnesota reported on the development of a reliable simultaneous HPLC assay for four of the most widely used protease inhibitors. HIV protease inhibitors are recommended...

Key Molecule Discovered In Transmission of AIDS Virus.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Scientists have discovered a key molecule that the AIDS virus uses to hijack a special type of cell in the body's outermost tissues, providing vital information into how the virus is first transmitted in the...

Study Examines How Drug Use Impacts HIV Spread.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- A study from Buffalo, New York's SUNY research center may help explain how cocaine use increases the susceptibility to HIV infection and the progression of disease. Earlier studies have supported a...

Human Anti-HIV gp41 MAbs Neutralize Multiple Primary HIV Isolates.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Human anti-HIV gp41 monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) interact with free and complexed peptides and neutralize multiple primary HIV isolates, researchers from the United States reported. "HIV-1 entry into...

Malaria, HIV Among Risk Factors for Anemia in Kenyan Children.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in Kenya have identified a number of potential risk factors for anemia in children, including exposure to HIV and malaria. "Between June 1996 and March 1999, 580 infants born to 411 HIV...

Researchers Report on Rat Model for HIV.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers from the University of California report on efforts to develop a transgenic rat model for AIDS. Oliver T. Keppler and colleagues reported their findings at the 1999 Meeting on Physiological...

Strategy Produces Selective Induction of Th1 and Th2 Cells.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- DNA vaccines can be used for selective induction of Th1 and Th2 cells, reported researchers from the United Kingdom. "DNA vaccines offer one of the most promising strategies to combat the spread of many...

Caribbean AIDS Explosion Examined.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Homophobia, sex tourism, infidelity, and poverty are major factors causing a rapid spread of AIDS and increasingly infecting women in the Caribbean, international and regional health officials said at a...

Live Poliovirus Vaccine Being Testing Against HIV in Macaques.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- A live poliovirus being studied as a possible vaccine against HIV infection is currently being tested in monkeys. Researchers Shane Crotty and colleagues from the University of California at San Francisco...

SF162deltaV2 Envelope Could Further AIDS Vaccine Search.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- The generation of T-helper and neutralizing-antibody responses in macaques immunized with the SF162deltaV2 envelope using a bimodal DNA/protein vaccination protocol was the subject of a presentation by...

U.S. NIH Reports on Selection of HIV Specific Epitopes.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers from the U.S. National Institutes of Health report on the selection of HIV specific epitopes by screening random peptide libraries with antibodies from HIV-1 positive sera. These findings...

Discovery of CCR5 Structure That Binds HIV Reported.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Taos, New Mexico, reported new discoveries on the structure and function of CCR5, a human receptor protein that plays a critical role in HIV fusion and infection. ...

U.S. National Institutes of Health Launches ClinicalTrials.gov Web Site.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- The U.S. National Institutes of Health announced the launch of the first phase of a consumer-friendly database, ClinicalTrials.gov, with information on more than 4,000 federal and private medical studies...

Drug Companies To Donate Vaccines.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Four major drug companies planned to announce at the White House on March 2, 2000, that they are donating millions of doses of vaccines - worth more than $150 million - to combat infectious diseases in needy...

Japan, U.S. Team Up Against AIDS, Other Diseases.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Japan and the United States have agreed to send a team of researchers to Cambodia to intensify the fight against AIDS and other infectious diseases, officials of the two countries said on February 29, 2000....

Clinton Plan May Boost HIV Benefits.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- The Clinton administration is allowing Maine to extend Medicaid coverage to people with HIV, after years of saying it would be too expensive to cover all the infected Americans who don't have full-blown AIDS....

Health News Mega Site www.NewsRx.com Offer Jams Web Site; NewsRx.com Named Official Online News Sponsor of eHealthcareWorld.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- The $30 million health news giveaway announced by NewsRx.com at www.NewsRx.com resulted in an instantaneous onrush. "We announced the giveaway at 7:30 a.m. Traffic peaked immediately and by 8:00 a.m. the...

Ignorance Could Worsen South Africa AIDS Threat.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Widespread ignorance of the threat of AIDS suggests that more than half of all South Africans are exposed to the risk of infection, a survey showed March 1, 2000. Polling firm MarkData said in a statement...

FDA Approval Received for Cadaveric Serum Use with Genetic Systems Test Kits.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 13, 2000... 2000 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., Hercules, California, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved two of its licensed assays for use with cadaveric serum samples. The need for...

HIV(+) TB Patients Are Less Likely to Spread Disease.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- Patients with dual HIV and tuberculosis infection are less likely to transmit Mycobacterium tuberculosis to their close contacts than TB patients without HIV infection, according to an intriguing study from...

Early HAART Offers Best Treatment Advantage.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- Initiating antiretroviral therapy early in HIV infection results in rapid stabilization of T-cell receptor beta chain repertoire. Early therapy also results in a reduced level of T-cell oligoclonality,...

Full-Course AZT Therapy Superior for Preventing HIV in Newborns.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- Full-course zidovudine therapy is more cost effective than short-course therapy in preventing perinatal transmission of HIV in the United States, according to a report from the Medical College of Wisconsin....

Resensitization to Zidovudine Reported.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in France reported on the resensitization to zidovudine of HIV patients with previous zidovudine resistance in the Delta Lamivudine Roll-Over Study. Researcher B. Masquelier and colleagues...

Interleukin-2 May Have Role in HIV Treatment.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- Interleukin-2 may be a useful adjuvant therapy for patients with HIV infection, a report from the U.S. National Institutes of Health suggests. Immunomodulation has become a major focus of HIV research in...

HIV(+) Women on Medicaid Adhering Poorly to Antiretroviral Therapy.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- Most pregnant women on Medicaid who are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are adhering poorly to prescribed antiretroviral therapy that can reduce the rate of maternal-fetal HIV...

Social Support, Confidence Predict Medication Adherence.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- AIDS patients are more likely to follow newer, more complex medication schedules if they are confident they can do so and if they possess a network of friends and others to support them, researchers from the...

CMV Studied in Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers from the U.S. National Institutes of Health report on cytomegalovirus retinitis in patients with highly active antiretroviral therapy. A number of striking changes have occurred recently in...

Pneumococcal Disease Still Common in Black AIDS Patients.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- Pneumococcal disease is still common in young, African American AIDS patients in the U.S., according to a report from San Francisco, California. Patients with AIDS have a high incidence of invasive...

Long-Term Gene Expression Induced After Vector-Mediated Transduction.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- Long-term multilineage expression was induced in peripheral blood from a Moloney murine leukemia virus vector after serial transplantation of gene transduced bone marrow cells, researchers from the United...

Dendritic Cell Model Useful for Assessing Interactions.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- The in vitro dendritic cell model appears to be useful for distinguishing interactions between HIV, dendritic cells, and T cells. During sexual transmission, HIV infects the mucosal dendritic cells and is...

Epitopes Recognized by Monoclonal Antibodies May Advance HIV Vaccine Search.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- Epitopes recognized by three monoclonal antibodies may hold the key to an effective anti-HIV vaccine. Although maternal HIV-1 transmission occurs during gestation, intrapartum and postpartum (by...

Rabies Virus-Based Vaccine Against HIV Created; Other Viruses Next.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, are using a new ploy to combat HIV, the AIDS virus: rabies. Scientists have devised for the first time an HIV vaccine using a...

Capsaicin Not Useful Against HIV-Related Pain.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- Topical capsaicin does not appear to be useful in relieving neuropathy pain associated with HIV infection. Distal symmetrical peripheral neuropathy (DSPN) is a particularly distressing pain syndrome...

HIV Can Be Localized to Specific Human Placental Cells.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- HIV-1 can be localized to specific human placental cells following either in utero or in vitro infection, according to a report from New York's University of Rochester. This finding "demonstrates the...

Gastrointestinal Disease Now Uncommon in AIDS Patients.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- Gastrointestinal opportunistic disease is now uncommon in AIDS patients, thanks to the widespread use of highly active antiretroviral therapy. Opportunistic disorders (OD) are the most frequent...

HIV Infection Negatively Impacts HCV Course.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers have long debated whether HIV infection negatively impacts the pathology of hepatitis C virus infection. A study from France suggests that it does. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is frequently...

Polyamines May Have Activity Against Opportunistic Pneumonia.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- Polyamines and polyamine metabolism are good targets for the development of new and improved Pneumocystis carinii drugs. Pneumocystis carinii is the causative agent of P. carinii pneumonia (PCP), an...

Genetic Footprinting Used for Studying HIV-1 Genome.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers at California's Stanford University characterized the HIV-1 genome using genetic footprinting. L.C. Laurent and colleagues presented a detailed and quantitative analysis of the functional...

Novel Approach May Roust HIV from its Hiding Places.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- Disabling a biochemical "pump" that siphons protease inhibitors away from HIV's hiding places in the brain and testes may offer a new way to enhance antiviral therapy for people with AIDS. The challenge...

HIV-Related TB Cases Increasing in Mumbai, India.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- In a recent study from India, researchers reported an increase in dual morbidity concerning HIV and TB. They found 17% of Mumbai city's TB cases were attributable to HIV. Mumbai city is the AIDS capital...

Study Supports Secondary Chemoprophylaxis for TB/HIV(+).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- A recent study examining the intervals of recurrent tuberculosis (TB) following successful treatment showed support for secondary chemoprophylaxis. Samuel Elias Kalluvya and colleagues examined subsequent...

Researchers Report HIV and STD Statistics from Vietnam.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- In a recent study, researchers reported an extensive rise in the projected HIV and AIDS rates for Vietnam. Hung Nguyen Duy and associates also reported an alarming increase in penicillin resistance in...

Lentiviral Vectors May Represent Immunization Strategy.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- Lentiviral vectors expressing viral or tumor antigens may represent an immunization strategy for HIV, researchers from the University of California at San Diego suggest. Flossie Wong-Staal and colleagues...

HIV Affects Mental Alertness and Self-Esteem.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- According to a recent study from India, HIV was associated with neurological, cognitive, and behavioral problems in a majority of patients. Mohammad Aijaz Khan examined clinical data from 50 patients who...

Programs Implemented To Reduce Mother-to-Infant HIV Transmission in the Developing World.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 20, 2000... 2000 MAR 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation announced grants totaling $800,000 to provide necessary resources to begin implementation of programs for reducing the transmission of HIV from mother to infant...