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Study highlights importance of educating family members on opioid overdoses and naloxone use

Family members are often the ones who administer naloxone during an opioid overdose and should be considered as part of the larger response to help curb fatal overdoses.

28 Apr 2017

Improvements to animal testing protocols could yield more useful clinical results

The use of animals in biomedical research has long been the focus of campaigns by animal rights activists. Two leading scientists writing in the European Journal of Internal Medicine give their expert view of the importance of animal testing to medical progress and present ways it could be further improved to yield more useful clinical results.

27 Apr 2017

New technique dramatically accelerates search for new cancer treatments

A new technique developed at the University of Virginia School of Medicine will let a single cancer research lab do the work of dozens, dramatically accelerating the search for new treatments and cures.

26 Apr 2017

Researchers use novel phage therapy to treat patient infected with multidrug-resistant bacterium

Scientists and physicians at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, working with colleagues at the U.S. Navy Medical Research Center - Biological Defense Research Directorate, Texas A&M University, a San Diego-based biotech and elsewhere, have successfully used an experimental therapy involving bacteriophages -- viruses that target and consume specific strains of bacteria -- to treat a patient near death from a multidrug-resistant bacterium.

25 Apr 2017

Latest advances in antibody delivery mediated by rAAV for treatment of chronic and infectious diseases

Monoclonal antibody-based therapies have revolutionized treatments of cancer and autoimmune diseases because of their specificity and limited toxicity.

21 Apr 2017

Study: Improving health and wellbeing of adolescents could bring 10-fold economic benefit

As the World Bank meetings begin, a new study shows that investments in adolescent health and wellbeing are some of the best that can be made towards achieving the SDGs

21 Apr 2017

WHO Global Hepatitis Report reveals goal to eliminate viral hepatitis by 2030

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published the first-ever Global Hepatitis Report. The World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA) welcomes the publication, which is a follow-up to WHO’s Global Strategy on Viral Hepatitis, and has set the goal to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030.

21 Apr 2017

New model may provide vital insights into life-saving treatment for CMV infection

At-risk patients, such as those with HIV or transplant recipients, could benefit from potentially life-saving study carried out by a University of Surrey led group of international researchers.

21 Apr 2017

New behavioral intervention program could help reduce HIV infection rates among Latino men

Men who have sex with men accounted for two thirds of all new HIV infections in the United States, with 26 percent occurring in Latinos, according to 2014 data. If those rates continue, it is estimated that one in four Latino MSM may be diagnosed with HIV during his lifetime.

20 Apr 2017

Researchers report new evidence that defective HIV proviruses distract immune system

Researchers at Johns Hopkins and George Washington universities report new evidence that proteins created by defective forms of HIV long previously believed to be harmless actually interact with our immune systems and are actively monitored by a specific type of immune cell, called cytotoxic T cells.

19 Apr 2017

New study reports long-term infectious disease trends in China after SARS outbreak

Following the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003, China stepped up its prevention and control methods for all infectious diseases, and rates of infection have levelled off since 2009.

19 Apr 2017

UTHealth participates in study to evaluate effectiveness of new injectable HIV medication

The HIV Prevention Trials Network, which includes McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, has launched a study to evaluate whether a new injectable medication can work as well as an existing oral pill to safely protect against HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (TGW) who have sex with men.

18 Apr 2017

Positive emotion intervention improves health in people newly diagnosed with HIV

When individuals recently diagnosed with HIV were coached to practice skills to help them experience positive emotions, the result was less HIV in their blood and lower antidepressant use, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.

17 Apr 2017

Nanoparticle-programmed immune cells can slow progression of leukemia in mouse model

Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have developed biodegradable nanoparticles that can be used to genetically program immune cells to recognize and destroy cancer cells -- while the immune cells are still inside the body.

17 Apr 2017

Discovery of additional viral reservoir reveals new target for HIV cure research

HIV cure research to date has focused on clearing the virus from T cells, a type of white blood cell that is an essential part of the immune system.

17 Apr 2017

Injection drug use linked to increase in immune activation, says researcher

The use of heroin and other illicit drugs has been shown to trigger a response from the body's immune system.

13 Apr 2017

NIH scientists identify protein complexes involved in promoting HSV infection and reactivation

Herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections last a lifetime. Once a person has been infected, the virus can remain dormant (latent) for years before periodically reactivating to cause recurrent disease. This poorly understood cycle has frustrated scientists for years.

12 Apr 2017

TSRI scientists find new way to make cell population resistant to HIV

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have found a way to tether HIV-fighting antibodies to immune cells, creating a cell population resistant to the virus.

11 Apr 2017

TSRI professor receives $4.8 million grant to advance potential HIV vaccine research

Professor Michael Farzan, co-chair of the Department of Immunology and Microbiology on the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute has received $4.8 million in funding through a 2017 Avant-Garde Award for HIV/AIDS research from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse.

11 Apr 2017

Study aims to characterize relationships of incarcerated African-Americans and STI/HIV risk

HIV incidence among African-American men is nearly eight times that of white men, and twice that of Latino men. Incarceration, which disproportionately affects African-American men, is thought to be a factor in this wide disparity.

11 Apr 2017

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Study highlights importance of educating family members on opioid overdoses and naloxone use

Improvements to animal testing protocols could yield more useful clinical results

New technique dramatically accelerates search for new cancer treatments

Researchers use novel phage therapy to treat patient infected with multidrug-resistant bacterium

Latest advances in antibody delivery mediated by rAAV for treatment of chronic and infectious diseases

Study: Improving health and wellbeing of adolescents could bring 10-fold economic benefit

WHO Global Hepatitis Report reveals goal to eliminate viral hepatitis by 2030

New model may provide vital insights into life-saving treatment for CMV infection

New behavioral intervention program could help reduce HIV infection rates among Latino men

Researchers report new evidence that defective HIV proviruses distract immune system

New study reports long-term infectious disease trends in China after SARS outbreak

UTHealth participates in study to evaluate effectiveness of new injectable HIV medication

Positive emotion intervention improves health in people newly diagnosed with HIV

Nanoparticle-programmed immune cells can slow progression of leukemia in mouse model

Discovery of additional viral reservoir reveals new target for HIV cure research

Injection drug use linked to increase in immune activation, says researcher

NIH scientists identify protein complexes involved in promoting HSV infection and reactivation

TSRI scientists find new way to make cell population resistant to HIV

TSRI professor receives $4.8 million grant to advance potential HIV vaccine research

Study aims to characterize relationships of incarcerated African-Americans and STI/HIV risk

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