Singapore Placed 13th in Human Capital Investments
Singapore is an island full of opportunities both for its citizens and foreigners. Recently, the state has been ranked number 13 for human capital investment. This is according to a study conducted by experts from More...
HIV/AIDS, a major health issue
Some people may think that HIV is far away from their lives. But in fact, HIV has become a major global public health issue. The WHO reported that 36.7 million people were living with HIV in 2016. Unfortunately, More...
Cow antibodies yield important clues for developing a broadly effective HIV vaccine
Cows are leaving the pasture and entering the field…of HIV vaccine research. As outlined in a study published today in Nature, lead author Devin Sok, Director, Antibody Discovery and Development at the International More...
Andrew Garfield stars in NT Live: Angels in America, arriving in theaters on July 20 and July 27
Fathom Events continues to offer the best theatrical presentation for audiences across America and the next NT Live is next week. Andrew Garfield (“Silence,” “Hacksaw Ridge”) stars in “Angels in America,” More...
UAB performs Deep South’s first HIV-positive kidney transplant from HIV-positive deceased donor
Sometime in the next few days or weeks — whenever he can adequately gather his thoughts — a Mississippi man plans to sit down and write a very important letter to a family he has never met, but whose legacy More...
HIV treatment, Genvoya, gets FDA nod
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Genvoya (a fixed-dose combination tablet containing elvitegravir, cobicistat, emtricitabine, and tenofovir alafenamide) as a complete regimen for the treatment More...
ISIS to use HIV infected terrorists in ‘AIDS bombing’
The headlines are shocking as Islamic State militants who have been infected with HIV after intercourse with sex slaves are going to be purged from the group’s ranks by using them as suicide bombers with the More...
CDC: 70 percent of Americans do not have their HIV under control.
Just 30 percent of Americans with HIV had the virus under control in 2011, and approximately two-thirds of those whose virus was out of control had been diagnosed but were no longer in care, according to a new Vital More...
Gene Editing Technology Used To Remove HIV From Cells
A new gene editing technology, termed the CRISPR/Cas9 system, has been used to remove any genetic remnants of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from cells in culture. The system removed all traces of the viral More...
Adult male circumcision not linked to riskier sexual behavior: Study
Men do not engage in riskier behaviors after they are circumcised, according to a study in Kenya by University of Illinois at Chicago researchers. Image/CIA Three clinical trials have shown that male circumcision More...
PositiveSingles: STD dating and whole lot more
Online dating sites are hugely popular and can cater specifically to virtually every individuals wants and needs- Christian dating, Jewish dating, 50+ dating and just about anything else under the sun. One dating More...
HIV Prevention: Digital outreach efforts to reach at-risk younger men
(NEW YORK, NY, June 23, 2014) –While many HIV prevention interventions have traditionally been delivered face-to-face, a study from Columbia University School of Nursing suggests that digital outreach efforts More...
Haiti reports 25000 new HIV cases in 2013
Haitian health officials are reporting via their Epidemiological Bulletin for HIV Surveillance #7 (computer translated) that from January to December 2013, there were 25,161 newly diagnosed cases during the year, More...
Health organizations file complaint against Florida insurers, claim violations of ACA
PRESS RELEASE Two leading health organizations–the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) and The AIDS Institute–filed a complaint today with the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health More...
Scientists Show AIDS Vaccine Could Work Against Changeable Site on HIV
PRESS RELEASE LA JOLLA, CA—May 14, 2014—A vaccine or other therapy directed at a single site on a surface protein of HIV could in principle neutralize nearly all strains of the virus—thanks to the diversity More...
Gay and Bisexual Men account for the vast majority of syphilis cases in men during 2009–2012: CDC
Just 14 short years ago, the sexually transmitted infection, syphilis, was on the verge of elimination in the United States; however, that trend has turned around dramatically as “The Great Imitator” More...
Lipid Concentration Determines Time of HIV Spread
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health have found that an inheritable trait, in which dendritic cells of the immune system have low levels of cholesterol, slowed the usually rapid More...
Author, Mark Jerome Walters discusses his new book, ‘Seven Modern Plagues’
A new book, which examines seven relatively new and emerging infectious diseases and how human action and the change in the ecology, causes them to produce, according to the author, “ecodemics”. The More...
HIV infected men at greater risk of heart attack: Study
The risk of heart disease in HIV-infected men is higher than in men not infected, according to a large NIH-supported study published in the journal, the Annals of Internal Medicine. Image/NHLBI The buildup of soft More...
Miami researchers make a dramatic step towards an HIV vaccine
The elusive HIV/AIDS vaccine. Researchers have been trying to develop this vital preventive tool for the viral syndrome for years. Now, researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Center More...
