Japan can't run out the clock on coronavirus
Next month the Olympic torch will arrive in Japan for a four-month relay to launch the opening ceremonies for the Tokyo summer games. But rather than anticipating the sight of Olympic torchbearers, much of Japan is fixated on a different relay: hundreds of masked ...
Thailand sees apparent success treating virus with drug cocktail
A Chinese woman infected with the new coronavirus showed a dramatic improvement after she was treated with a cocktail of anti-virals used to treat flu and HIV, Thailand's health ministry said Sunday. The 71-year-old patient tested negative for the virus 48 hours after Thai doctors ...
China names HIV drugs as part of treatment plan for Wuhan virus
China is using AbbVie Inc.'s HIV drugs as an ad-hoc treatment for pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus while the global search for a cure continues. The Beijing branch of China's National Health Commission said that a combination of lopinavir and ritonavir, sold under the ...
Facebook said on Monday it had removed some ads that contained misleading information about HIV prevention drugs following an outcry from activists, health experts and U.S. lawmakers. The ads linked the drugs, which are known as PrEP and designed to prevent HIV, to severe bone ...
Scientists slam Chinese CRISPR babies research after manuscript is released
The gene edits given to Chinese twins last year meant to immunize them against HIV may have failed in its purpose and created unintended mutations, scientists said Tuesday after the original research was made public for the first time. Excerpts from the manuscript were released ...
U.S. lab identifies rare new HIV strain from three blood samples taken in Congo
A U.S. pharmaceutical firm has identified a new subtype of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and said the finding showed that cutting edge genome sequencing is helping researchers stay ahead of mutations. The strain, HIV-1 Group M subtype L, has been recorded in three people ...
Fund pledges $14 billion to fight AIDS, TB and malaria epidemics
Governments, philanthropists and private firms pledged just over $14 billion Thursday for a plan to save 16 million lives, in a boost for the global fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. The money was promised at a replenishment meeting in Lyon, France, of the Global ...
Hokkaido man with HIV awarded damages after being denied hospital job over condition
The Sapporo District Court court on Tuesday ordered a hospital operator in Sapporo to pay a man ¥1.65 million in damages after it refused to employ him last year for failing to report being HIV-positive. The court ruled that the Hokkaido man, in his 30s, ...
Diagnosed HIV and AIDS infections down for second straight year in Japan
The combined number of people found to be infected with HIV or diagnosed with AIDS in Japan fell for the second straight year in 2018, the health ministry said Thursday. The total stood at 1,317, down by 72 from the previous year, the ministry said. An ...
The first chlamydia vaccine encouragingly triggered an immune response in women during preliminary clinical trials and was found to be safe, researchers said Tuesday. Further trials, starting later this year, will show whether the vaccine actually protects against the sexually transmitted disease (STD), they reported ...
A matchstick-size implant could revolutionize HIV prevention regimes after early trials suggested the device could stop at-risk people contracting the virus for up to a year at a time, new research showed Tuesday. Unveiling their findings from a clinical trial at the 10th annual International ...
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 ...
