AIDS Weekly articles from September 2000

AIDS Weekly archives from September 2000

Nucleoside Analogue Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors Contribute to Fat Wasting.(Brief Article)
September 4, 2000... 2000 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com) -- Nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) therapy contributes to subcutaneous fat wasting in HIV patients, according to researchers in Australia. "Progressive subcutaneous fat wasting, fat...

Discontinuing MAC Prophylaxis Seems Safe in HIV Patients Taking HAART.(Mycobacterium avium infection; highly active antiretroviral therapy)(Brief Article)
September 4, 2000... 2000 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in Switzerland find that discontinuing primary prophylaxis against disseminated Mycobacterium avium infection (MAC) in HIV infected patients who are responding well to highly active antiretroviral...

Metformin Used as Treatment.(for HIV patients with lipodystrophy syndrome)(Brief Article)
September 4, 2000... 2000 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com) -- Metformin may be of benefit to HIV patients with lipodystrophy syndrome, suggest the results of a clinical trial. "Context A syndrome of lipodystrophy, characterized by fat redistribution and insulin...

Researchers Discover Why HIV Targets the Gut.(Brief Article)
September 4, 2000... 2000 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com) -- University of California, Los Angeles, AIDS Institute researchers have solved a piece of the mystery why the AIDS virus targets the gut, explaining why unprotected oral and anal sex with an infected partner...

Toxicity from Ritonavir Overdose Similar to Side Effects.(Brief Article)
September 4, 2000... 2000 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com) -- An accidental overdose of Ritonavir (RTV) in an HIV infected patient showed that toxicity effects were similar to chronic side effects and manageable without interventional therapy. "The number of drugs...

Dual Epidemic is Developing in Russia.(HIV and tuberculosis epidemics)(Brief Article)
September 4, 2000... 2000 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers report that there is a dual epidemic of HIV and tuberculosis (TB) developing in northwest Russia. A. Vasyliev and colleagues from the Research Institute of Phthysiopulmonology, Russia,...

Ultraviolet B Radiation Does Not Negatively Affect HIV Patients.(Brief Article)
September 4, 2000... 2000 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com) -- Ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation does not cause a decline in immunological parameters in HIV infected homosexual men, say researchers in The Netherlands. "Whether exposure to sunlight, especially UVB...

Small Molecules Used to Block Proteins in HIV.(Brief Article)
September 4, 2000... 2000 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com) -- Purdue University scientists are using small molecules to bring down the molecular giants responsible for viral replication in AIDS. The new approach blocks the interaction of two identical proteins that...

Quick HIV Tests for Use in the Field are Emerging.(Calypte Biomedical Corp.)(Brief Article)
September 4, 2000... 2000 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com) -- Calypte Biomedical Corp., Alameda, California, is seeking international funding to help get its urine test for HIV into rural areas in African countries, where the virus and full-blown AIDS are epidemic. ...

Clinton Wants to Establish Trust Fund for African AIDS Victims.(Brief Article)
September 4, 2000... 2000 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com) -- During the week of August 21, 2000, before he made what likely be his last presidential trip to Africa, U.S. president Clinton planned to sign a bill establishing a trust fund to care for African AIDS victims,...

Grant Awarded to Support AIDS Projects in India.(Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Foundation)(Brief Article)
September 4, 2000... 2000 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com) -- The Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Foundation (FXB), New York, New York, will develop community-based programs in rural Rajasthan, India, to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, with...

HIV-1 Specific Immune Responses Generated by Vaccine and Booster.(Brief Article)
September 4, 2000... 2000 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in the United States have evaluated immune responses in HIV-1 seronegative volunteers immunized with a recombinant canarypox and gp120 prime-boost HIV-1 vaccine. University of Alabama...

Orphan Drug Designation Received for Oral Interferon-alpha Therapy in HIV Patients.(Amarillo Biosciences Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 4, 2000... 2000 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com) -- Amarillo Biosciences, Inc. (AMAR), Amarillo, Texas, announced that its proprietary orally-administered interferon-alpha has been granted orphan drug designation as a treatment of papillomavirus warts in the...

HTLV-II Discovery Might Shed Light on Behavior of HIV.(Brief Article)
September 4, 2000... 2000 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com) -- Scientists in Brazil report they are studying a case of a rare brain disorder caused by human T-lymphotropic virus II (HTLV-II), a retrovirus closely related to HIV, which could lead to a better understanding...

Firm Tracks Access of Medical Information.(Pharmatrack raises Internet privacy concerns)(Brief Article)
September 4, 2000... 2000 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com) -- Internet privacy advocates raised concerns August 15, 2000, about a technology firm that is quietly tracking the information consumers are getting from pharmaceutical companies' websites. By using tiny...

Health Official Wants to Focus on Protecting Uninfected Men.(Mitchell H. Katz)(Brief Article)
September 4, 2000... 2000 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com) -- The city of San Francisco's health director says it's time to target efforts at protecting those without HIV from being infected, rather than focusing services primarily at HIV positive people. According...

B Cells May Help Maintain HIV Infection.(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) devastates the body's ability to fight off infection by destroying a key class of T cells essential for maintaining a vigorous immune response. Now, scientists from the...

Perinatal Exposure to AZT Affects the Developing Central Nervous System.(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Prolonged exposure to AZT in utero has been found to produce selective effects on the developing central nervous system (CNS) in a murine model. "The aim of the present study was to extend previous...

Neuropathological Involvement Still High Despite Newer Therapies.(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in Austria reported that central nervous system (CNS) involvement is still a frequent autopsy finding in AIDS patients irrespective of the introduction of improved antiretroviral therapies. "A...

Survival Rate Rises Twofold for HIV Related Pneumonia with Respiratory Failure.(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Survival rates for patients with HIV related Pneumocytis carinii pneumonia (PCP) who have suffered severe respiratory failure and required mechanical ventilation, have risen to approximately 40% in the U.S.,...

Growth Hormone Therapy Affects Some Adrenal Gland Hormones.(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Pharmacologic growth hormone (GH) therapy for HIV associated wasting affects some adrenal gland functions, researchers in the United States reported. "Recombinant human GH treatment increases lean body...

Pilot Trial Combines Chemotherapy/Rituximab for HIV Associated Disease.(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in Italy and the United States tested cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and etoposide (CDE) combined with the anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody (MAb) rituximab in patients with HIV associated...

HIV Infection May Affect Bone Mineral Density in Children.(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- HIV infection and/or antiretroviral therapy may affect bone mineral density (BMD) in children, researchers in Italy suggested. "As HIV has effects on nutritional status, producing malnutrition wasting and...

Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Active Against Kaposi's Sarcoma.(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is useful against Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), researchers in Italy reported. "HAART has significantly reduced the KS incidence among HIV infected patients,"...

New Drug Tested in Dominican Republic.(capravirine is being tested by Agouron Pharmaceuticals)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- American researchers testing a new AIDS drug needed patients who had never received any treatment. The Dominican Republic has them - by the thousands. "It seems like a win-win," said Joy Schmitt,...

South African Government Denies Exporting Contaminated Blood Products.(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- In response to published accusations that for years it exported virus-contaminated human plasma, South Africa's department of health says a World Health Organization (WHO) investigation has found the blood...

Knowledge of Activation-Induced Cell Death Provides Immunotherapeutic Prospects.(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- A better understanding of activation-induced cell death (AICD) may suggest new immunotherapeutic approaches to autoimmune diseases, AIDS, and transplantation medicine, researchers in Germany reported. ...

Intraocular Sustained-Release Ganciclovir Implant Safe and Effective.(against cytomegalovirus retinitis)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in Brazil reported that intraocular sustained-relase ganciclovir (GCV) implants are safe and therapeutically effective against cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis in AIDS patients. Implants were...

AIDS-Related Illnesses Kill 229 in Ukraine in First Six Months of 2000.(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Heavy intravenous drug use in several Ukrainian cities has led to 3,200 new HIV infections in the first six months of 2000, a news report said August 17, 2000. In that period 229 people, including four...

Modified T Cells in HIV Patients Survive Long-Term in vivo.(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- According to a study from the United States, genetically modified T cells were capable of long-term survival in patients with HIV infection. "To study HIV specific cellular immunity in vivo, we...

Doctors Accused of Secretly Testing Patients at Employers' Request.(Health Practitioners Association of South Africa)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- More than 50 physicians in South Africa are accused of HIV testing patients without their knowledge or consent - and then passing on the result to the patient's employer, media reported August 26, 2000. ...

Malaysian AIDS Group Protests Move for Pre-Marriage Screening.(Malaysian AIDS Council)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Malaysia's biggest AIDS awareness and prevention body has protested a proposal by officials in a southern state to subject Muslim men to HIV tests before they are allowed to get married, a news report said....

Approval Advised to Conduct Australian Treatment Trial.(Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration oks Virax Holdings Ltd.'s Clinical Trials Exemption application)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Virax Holdings Limited (VHL), Melbourne, Australia, announced that Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has advised approval of the company's Clinical Trials Exemption (CTX) application to...

DNA Immunization Produces Anti-Major Histocompatibility Complex Antibody Responses.(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- DNA immunization with major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-encoding vectors induced specific immune responses in macaque model of HIV, researchers in Canada reported. "In simian immunodeficiency virus...

Immunity Induced by Protein Conjugated to Immunostimulatory DNA.(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Protein conjugated to immunostimulatory DNA resulted in cell-mediated and humoral immunity against HIV, reported researchers in the United States. "Immunostimulatory DNA sequences (ISS) are a potent Th1...

WHO: Nearly Half of Deaths in Developing Countries Due to Communicable Disease.(World Health Organization report)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Close to half the deaths in developing countries are due to infectious diseases, of which AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria are the biggest killers, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). These...

Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research Established at University of California.(San Diego)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- A statewide, state-funded initiative in California to rigorously study the safety and efficacy of medicinal cannabis to treat certain diseases is being established at the University of California, San Diego...

African Health Ministers Urged to Adopt Policies for Drugs, Diet to Combat HIV/AIDS.(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- In pursuit of Africa's enhanced fight against HIV/AIDS, the World Health Organization (WHO) on August 28, 2000, urged health ministers attending the 50th regional committee meeting in Ouagadougou, Burkina...

Ignorance, Fear, Apathy, Shame Contribute to Caribbean AIDS Spread.(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- When Jemma discovered she was HIV positive - infected by a boyfriend who hid his condition - she began avoiding people, slinking through back alleys to her job as a seamstress in a small Trinidadian town. ...

Newspaper Report: Montaigner Reminds Workshop Attendees of Oral Risk.(Luc Montaigner)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- At an August 29, 2000, AIDS workshop held in Kampala, Uganda, Dr. Luc Montaigner told attendees that HIV can be transmitted by deep kissing. Montaigner is president of the World Foundation for Aids...

Harvard Awards Grant to Control Multidrug-Resistant Disease Worldwide.(Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to issue grant to the Harvard Medical School)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2000... 2000 SEP 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it will issue a nearly $45 million grant to Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, for the creation of a collaborative partnership that will...

HIV Specific Unresponsiveness May Play Role in Diminished T-Cell Production.(Brief Article)
September 18, 2000... 2000 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- According to a study from the United States, anergy may be caused by the lack of CD4(+) T-cell proliferation to p24 antigen (Ag) in HIV infected individuals. "It has been suggested that CD4(+) T-cell...

Adenine Induces Selective Apoptosis of HIV Infected Cells in vitro.(Brief Article)
September 18, 2000... 2000 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in Japan have evaluated adenine as an anti-HIV drug in vitro. "A novel strategy for anti-HIV therapy is the clearance of the residual infected cells from the body," stated K. Hirasawa and...

HAART Reduces Anemia in HIV Infected Women.(highly active antiretroviral therapy)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2000... 2000 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) appears to reduce the incidence of anemia in HIV infected women. "Anemia is common in HIV infected women, and correlates with higher HIV RNA levels in blood,...

Transdermal Testosterone Replacement Effective for HIV Infected Women.(Brief Article)
September 18, 2000... 2000 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- Transdermal testosterone (T) replacement therapy effectively raises serum total and free T levels in androgen-deficient HIV infected women, researchers have found. "Androgen deficiency in HIV infected...

Drug Abuse, Not HIV Infection, Responsible for Changes in Reproductive Hormones in HIV(+) Women.(Brief Article)
September 18, 2000... 2000 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- Drug abuse, not HIV, appears to be responsible for altered reproductive hormones in some HIV infected women. "To determine the effect of substance abuse and HIV status on reproductive hormones, we...

Lentivirus Infection Induces Matrix Metalloproteinase Expression in Brain.(Brief Article)
September 18, 2000... 2000 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- According to researchers in Canada, lentivirus infection induces matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) expression in the brain. "Infection of the brain by lentiviruses, including human immunodeficiency virus...

New HIV Model Shows Virus Doesn't Kill White Blood Cells; It "Homes" Them to Death.(Brief Article)
September 18, 2000... 2000 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- University of Michigan scientist Dr. Denise Kirschner has developed a new mathematical model that shows how HIV slowly destroys its victim's immune system by accelerating a normal process called homing, which...

Herpesvirus Vector Shows Promise in Research.(AIDS vaccine research)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2000... 2000 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- Two Harvard Medical School researchers working toward an HIV vaccine are yielding promising results using a novel viral vector known for its longevity, according to a study in the September 2000 Journal of...

FDA Authorizes Protocol in Multi-Drug Resistant Disease.(HemispheRx BioPharma Inc. receives research authorization)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2000... 2000 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- Hemispherx Biopharma, Inc. (HEB; HEBws), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorization to conduct an advanced multi-center clinical study in drug-resistant...

Participants Sought for Interleukin-2 Study for HIV/AIDS Immunotherapy.(Brief Article)
September 18, 2000... 2000 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- Infectious disease researchers at Northwestern University Medical School and Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, are conducting a study of an investigational drug in patients with...

Participants Needed for Study to Assess Effects of Heavy Drinking on HIV/AIDS.(Brief Article)
September 18, 2000... 2000 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- A new study at the San Francisco, California, Veterans Affairs Medical Center will reveal how heavy drinking affects the progression of HIV/AIDS. The researchers are seeking participants for the study;...

Research Leads to Guidelines on How To Treat Patients with HCV and HIV.
September 18, 2000... 2000 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- The more than 300,000 Americans infected with the potentially deadly combination of HIV and hepatitis C. HCV has become a leading cause of death in HIV patients, but researchers unveiled new solutions...

Research Paves the Way for Faster, Better, Cheaper Probing Method.(DNA detection)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2000... 2000 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers at Northwestern University, Illinois, have combined gold nanoparticles and DNA in a novel way to form tiny probes capable of DNA detection that is more accurate and less expensive than conventional...

Clinical Trials of Immunization Against Clade A HIV-1 Virus Begin.(Brief Article)
September 18, 2000... 2000 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers began clinical trials August 31, 2000, with a vaccine targeted at an African strain of AIDS. The vaccine is the first specifically designed to combat the Clade A HIV-1 virus, the most...

SIV gag DNA-Vaccinated Monkeys Develop Protective Immune Responses.
September 18, 2000... 2000 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in the United States report that rhesus monkeys vaccinated with a simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) gag DNA vaccine developed protective immune responses. "The potential contribution of a...

DNA-Based Flu Vaccine Raises Protective Immunity; Could be Model for Other Antiviral Vaccines.(Brief Article)
September 18, 2000... 2000 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- Scientists at the Vaccine Research Center of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, have successfully engineered and tested a single-dose, DNA-based influenza vaccine in mice that could serve as a template for...

U.S. Trials on Contraceptive Gel Begin Via the Internet.(OmniComm Systems Inc. to test Surete Gel)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2000... 2000 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- OmniComm Systems, Inc. (OMCM), Miami, Florida, announced it is partnering with Optima Worldwide, Ltd., to launch U.S. testing of a vaginal gel for the potential prevention of pregnancy and the most common...

World Health Care Leaders Call AIDS a Security Crisis.(Brief Article)
September 18, 2000... 2000 SEP 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- The AIDS epidemic ravaging southern Africa needs to be seen not just as a health issue, but as a security crisis with potentially global implications, health care leaders from around the world said September...

Oral DNA Vaccine Induces Mucosal and Systemic Immune Responses.
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in Japan, Poland, and the United States collaborated on designing an orally-delivered DNA vaccine that produces mucosal and systemic immune responses against HIV. Discussing their study at the...

Acute Scrub-Typhus Infection Suppresses HIV-1.
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Scrub-typhus bacteria may have antiretroviral activity, propose researchers in the United States. "In HIV-1 infected individuals, viral load has been reported to rise transiently if an acute infection...

Antiretroviral Drugs Not Responsible for Hyperinsulinemia.
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Hyperinsulinemia in highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)-treated HIV infected patients may not be associated with the drug therapy itself, but may be a distinct phenomenon, researchers suggest. ...

Once-Daily HAART Regimen Data from Treatment-Naive Patients Presented.
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Triangle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (VIRS), Durham, North Carolina, announced that researchers from the Agence Nationale de Recherche sur le SIDA (ANRS) in France presented the one-year results of a pilot study of...

Protease Inhibitor and Lipodystrophy Study Results Presented at ICAAC.(Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy)
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Bristol Myers Squibb announced presentation of study data on its once-daily protease inhibitor BMS-232632, Zerit(R), and on HIV associated lipodystrophy at the 40th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial...

Study Points to New Dilemmas Confronting HIV Health care Providers.
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- The new optimism expressed by health care providers treating HIV seropositive patients is mitigated by concerns surrounding treatment decisions and skepticism about the future, according to a new University...

HIV Seronegative Woman Infected with Intersubtype A/G Recombinant HIV-1.
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Clinical AIDS symptoms may be HIV related even when initial tests are negative for HIV infection, a case study suggests. "A 29-year-old Ghanaian woman who developed AIDS while being HIV antibody...

Bone Disorder is Surprisingly Common Among HIV Patients.
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Investigators at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) have demonstrated that a disabling bone disorder, osteonecrosis of the hip, is surprisingly common among patients with HIV infection. The...

Progressor Chimpanzees Could Reveal Mechanism for Resisting AIDS.
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Three HIV positive chimpanzees that are progressing to AIDS could provide insight into how the disease develops and might be averted. This is according to research conducted at the Yerkes Regional Primate...

Oral Opportunistic Infections in HIV-1 Subjects Have Declined.
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Since the induction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), the rate of oral opportunistic infections has declined in HIV-1 infected subjects, researchers in Germany reported. "In recent years...

No AIDS-Related Viruses or Chimpanzee DNA Found in 1950s-Era Polio Vaccine.
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Tests performed by three independent laboratories on 1950s-era polio vaccine samples from The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, failed to find any traces of SIV, HIV-1, or DNA indicating that...

Study Demonstrates Evolving Perceptions by Physicians Treating HIV Patients.
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Physicians who treat people living with HIV are less conclusive about the causes of lipodystrophy, a condition that affects some people living with HIV, indicate results of a recent survey. Seventy-one...

Study Indicates AZT Doesn't Cause Cardiac Abnormalities in Exposed Children.
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- The following is a statement from Claude Lenfant, MD, director, U.S. National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute, an arm of the U.S. National Institutes of Health: [helv] Since 1994, Zidovudine, or AZT, has...

Combination Therapy Might Help Those Failing Previous Treatment.
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- As the fight against HIV continues, the need for therapies to treat people failing previous therapy has intensified. Malte Schutz, MD, Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, and William Owen,...

FDA Approves Kaletra for HIV Infection.
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on September 15, 2000, issued an accelerated approval for Kaletra, a protease inhibitor, for adults and children greater than six months of age with HIV. ...

NIH Awards $20 Million for HIV Vaccine and Therapy Research.
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- SRI International, a non-profit research institute headquartered in Menlo Park, California, announced on September 6, 2000, that the U.S. National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) will...

Serostim Gains Orphan Drug Status by European Commission.
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Serono S.A. (SEO; SRA), Geneva, Switzerland, announced that the European Commission (EC) has granted Orphan Medicinal Product (OMP) designation to Serono's recombinant human growth hormone product, Serostim,...

Living4Life Launched to Increase Early Diagnosis and Treatment.
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- To help stem the HIV/AIDS epidemic in communities where the virus is spreading fastest, Glaxo Wellcome announced the nationalization of an approach modeled after the focused intervention concept used at the...

AIDS Cases Soar in China with Estimated 500,000 Infected.(Statistical Data Included)
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- The AIDS virus is spreading rapidly in China, with an estimated 500,000 Chinese infected, state-run newspapers reported September 8, 2000. Most are rural villagers using drugs, according to the reports....

CDC Contract Awarded to Promote Testing Nationally.
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Motivational Educational Entertainment (MEE) Productions Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been selected by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop HIV testing campaigns and...

Scientists Call for Moratorium.(on all HIV vaccine research and clinical trials)
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- The following was issued by the Chronic Illness Research Foundation: [helv] Scientists... called for a moratorium on all HIV vaccine research and clinical trials until the mechanism of AIDS is further...

California Requires HMOs to Have AIDS Specialists.
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Under a new state law, California health maintenance organizations (HMOs) will soon be required to let HIV positive patients get standing referrals to doctors with expertise in treating AIDS. While HMOs...

Study Evaluates Pharmaceuticals in Global Markets.
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- In the early 1980s, when HIV was first identified as the causative agent of AIDS, no one could have predicted the impact this disease would have. In the past two decades, more than 50 million people have...

FDA Panel Declines to Ease Blood Donor Ban.
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- U.S. government scientists on September 15, 2000, narrowly rejected a proposal to ease the ban on gay male blood donors, citing insufficient evidence about how the move might affect the AIDS risk to the U.S....

Vaccine May Protect Against Herpes - But Only in Women.
September 25, 2000... 2000 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers have made the first vaccine that protects against genital herpes. But there is a major catch: it works only in women and only if they have never had cold sores. The findings, reported on...