Trump ending fetal tissue research by federal scientists in win for abortion foes
The Trump administration said Wednesday it is ending medical research by government scientists using human fetal tissue, a victory for abortion foes that comes despite impassioned pleas from scientists that some health problems can't be studied any other way. Research using fetal tissue that otherwise ...
Mutation that protects against HIV raises death rate, study into gene-tinkering finds
People with a DNA mutation that reduces their chance of HIV infection may die sooner, according to a study that suggests tinkering with a gene to try to fix one problem may cause others. The study authors cited the case of the Chinese researcher who ...
Doctor's contaminated syringe suspected as over 600 people test HIV-positive in Pakistan city
Pakistan said on Sunday over 600 people, most of them children, had tested HIV positive in a city in the southern Sindh province. Concern grew after hundreds of people were allegedly infected by a doctor using a contaminated syringe in Rato Dero city and surrounding ...
Doctors use HIV in gene therapy to fix babies' 'bubble boy' disease
They were born without a working germ-fighting system, every infection a threat to their lives. Now eight babies with "bubble boy disease" have had it fixed by a gene therapy made from one of the immune system's worst enemies — HIV, the virus that ...
Global life expectancy up 5.5 years since 2000; income and access to care play key roles: WHO
Global life expectancy grew by 5.5 years between 2000 and 2016, the World Health Organization said Thursday, warning though that unequal income and access to health care translates into far shorter lives for many. The U.N. health agency also stressed significant gender differences in life ...
The fight against HIV isn't over yet
The virus has been eradicated from a second patient. In the 20 years since the first cure, the science of prevention and management has transformed.
Trading in Venezuela's pain: Colombia border vendors do brisk business in meds
With the HIV virus killing him, Giovanni Plaza fled Venezuela and was able in neighboring Colombia to receive desperately needed anti-retroviral medicine for free. Some of his compatriots have not been as lucky — reduced to buying smuggled drugs of dubious quality. Between the dire ...
Second woman carrying gene-edited baby in China; doctor faces police probe, state media reports
A researcher who claimed to have created the world's first genetically edited babies will face a Chinese police investigation, state media said Monday, as authorities confirmed that a second woman became pregnant during the experiment. He Jiankui shocked the scientific community last year after announcing ...
Chinese gay dating app Blued is halting new user registration for a week, it said Sunday, following media reports that underage users caught HIV after going on dates set up via the world's largest networking app for the LGBT community. China has a vibrant lesbian, ...
An antiviral pill taken daily by thousands of men across Sydney and other parts of Australia led to a globally unprecedented reduction in new HIV cases, showing that a targeted, preventative approach may accelerate progress on ending the AIDS epidemic. New cases of HIV among ...
World AIDS conference dominated by fears of new HIV explosion amid strict drug laws
Concerns over an HIV resurgence caused by strict drug laws fueling an epidemic blamed on needle-sharing dominated a world AIDS assembly that opened in Amsterdam Monday. Thousands of delegates — researchers, campaigners, activists and people living with the killer virus — gathered for a five-day ...
The AIDS epidemic risks resurging and spiraling out of control unless billions of extra dollars are pumped into prevention and treatment, experts warned Sunday on the eve of a major world conference. An alarming rate of new infections, coupled with an exploding population of young ...
