Study yields clues on HIV strains with “evolutionary advantage” that can...
While the virus that leads to AIDS has long been recognized to be “sloppy” in its replication, changing over time into divergent strains, a National Institutes of Health-funded study recently found...
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A doctor’s call for healthy foreign policy debate: John May, a South Florida corrections physician and founder of Health through Walls, a nonprofit that brings medical system support to prisons in...
View ArticleLamar Alexander moves up to ranking Republican on Senate HELP Committee, as...
The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions deals with issues surrounding most of the agencies, institutes, and programs of the Department of Health and Human Services, including...
View ArticleGlobal Health Appropriations: New Republicans on House State and Foreign...
The House Appropriations Committee’s State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee, with oversight on funding issues involving USAID and the State Department, has six new members — three Republicans and...
View ArticleFauci: HIV imaging yields “significant advance” in vaccine inquiry
For 15 years scientists have worked to get a clear enough picture of how the protein surrounding the virus that leads to AIDS interacts with antibodies, to guide the development of a vaccine that would...
View ArticleAIDS vaccine update: With Thai trial, broadly neutralizing antibodies, new...
NIH AIDS Vaccine Research Program Director: “The future of HIV-1 Vaccines is bright.” In 1997, scientists announced the birth of Dolly the cloned sheep, a computer named Deep Blue beat reigning chess...
View ArticleAIDS 2014: The Lancet launches special issue on HIV and sex work
Science Speaks is live-blogging from AIDS 2014 in Melbourne, Australia through the week, with updates on research, policy and insights from the 20th International AIDS Conference. MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA...
View ArticleDengue vaccine candidate protects fully in controlled human challenge trial
Categories: Research and DevelopmentTags: NIH, zika, dengue, Stephen Whitehead, Anna DurbinFindings, process can further vaccine quests, researchers say An experimental vaccine against dengue...
View ArticleNIH names new Office of AIDS Research director
Categories: HIV/AIDSTags: NIAID, NIH, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Jack Whitescarver, Dr. William Paul, Dr. Maureen Goodenow, Dr. Francis CollinsPost has been open since June 2015 departure of longtime...
View ArticleFauci: A “global health reserve fund” needed, for Zika, and outbreaks to come
Categories: U.S. Policy and FundingTags: NIH, Dr. Anthony Fauci, zika//UPDATE — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, citing additional locally transmitted Zika infections, and failures...
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