News From The Annals Of Internal Medicine: Jan. 17, 2012

1. High Doses of Vitamin D Provide No Benefit to Patients with Severe COPD Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the top 10 leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Vitamin D deficiency is present in 60 percent to 75 percent of patients with severe COPD…
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A Major Factor Affecting Risk Of Sexually Transmitting HIV Is Viral Load; Condom Use Significantly Reduces Risk

The level of HIV-1 in the blood of an HIV-infected partner is the single most important factor influencing risk of sexual transmission to an uninfected partner, according to a multinational study of heterosexual couples in sub-Saharan Africa…
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Childhood HIV Drug Shows Promise

Raltegravir, an antiretroviral medication that delays the spread of HIV infection provides a new method to treat HIV in children and adolescents. The drug was recently approved (December 21, 2011) by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use with other antiretroviral drugs to treat children and teenagers between 2 to18 years of age with […]

Preventing Mother To Child Transmission Of HIV In Zimbabwe

In this week’s PLoS Medicine, Andrea Ciaranello of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA and colleagues find, using a simulation model, that implementation of the latest WHO PMTCT (prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV) guidelines must take place in conjunction with improving access to PMTCT programs, increasing retention of women in care, and supporting […]

Health Departments Receive $339m From CDC To Fund HIV Prevention

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has started handing out money to state and local health departments across the country to help fund high impact HIV prevention activities in 2012. The total amount of money available for 2012, intended to cover the first year of a five-year […]

Monkey Study Raises Hope Of HIV/AIDS Vaccine

Scientists have tested a trial vaccine that protects rhesus monkeys against infection from a potent form of the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a distant relative of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS in humans. Monkeys that received the vaccine were more than 80% less likely to become infected when exposed […]

Gladstone And UCSF Scientists Provide A Global View Of How HIV/AIDS Hijacks Cells During Infection

Gladstone Institutes scientist Nevan Krogan, PhD, today is announcing research that identifies how HIV-the virus that causes AIDS-hijacks the body’s own defenses to promote infection. This discovery could one day help curb the spread of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Dr…
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Same-Sex Marriage Laws Reduce Doctor Visits And Health Care Costs For Gay Men

Gay men are able to lead healthier, less stress-filled lives when states offer legal protections to same-sex couples, according to a new study examining the effects of the legalization of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts…
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Pathogenic Landscape Of HIV

In perhaps the most comprehensive survey of the inner workings of HIV, an international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco has mapped every apparent physical interaction the virus makes with components of the human cells it infects work that may reveal new ways to design future HIV/AIDS drugs…
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Supplement Issue Of Journal Of Clinical Virology Assembles Papers On HIV Diagnostic Testing Algorithms

Elsevier’s Journal of Clinical Virology in collaboration with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the publication of a special supplement entitled ‘Update on HIV Diagnostic Testing Algorithms’. This timely supplement contains articles which summarize studies since the 2010 US HIV Diagnostics Conference validating the proposed new US HIV diagnostic testing algorithm…
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