• Protein involved in cystic fibrosis

    Updated: 2010-12-30 00:33:24
    A team of Johns Hopkins Children's Center scientists has discovered that a protein involved in cystic fibrosis (CF) also regulates inflammation and cell death in emphysema and appears to be responsible for other chronic lung diseases. The findings, published online in the recent issue of The Journal of Immunology, pave the way toward new therapys to prevent lung damage caused by infections or cigarette smoke in emphysema........

  • Breathalyzers for medical diagnostics

    Updated: 2010-12-29 16:41:34
    Scientists have overcome a fundamental obstacle in developing breath-analysis technology to rapidly diagnose patients by detecting chemical compounds called "biomarkers" in a person's respiration in real time. The scientists demonstrated their approach is capable of rapidly detecting biomarkers in the parts per billion to parts per million range, at least 100 times better than prior breath-analysis technologies, said Carlos Martinez, an assistant professor of materials engineering at Purdue who is working with scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology........

  • Social Media at the 2010 HIV Prevention Leadership Summit

    Updated: 2010-12-28 05:43:33
    By Meico Whitlock, AIDS.gov Fellow Earlier this month, we attended the 2010 HIV Prevention Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. The Summit brought together grantees funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), state and local health departments, community...

  • Fat cells become useful stem cells

    Updated: 2010-12-25 02:12:39
    Two studies appearing in the current issue. of Cell Transplantation 19(10) discuss stem cells derived from adipose (fat) cells and their potential use in plastic surgery and tissue reconstruction. The studies are now freely available on-line at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cog/ct/. Adipose-derived stem cells maintain their "stemness" and could be useful for cell-based therapies........

  • Update on Attempts to Repeat Stem Cell Transplant HIV Cure

    Updated: 2010-12-22 19:29:37

  • ONAP Staff: It Gets Better

    Updated: 2010-12-22 11:39:47
    By Gregorio Millett, M.P.H., Senior Policy Advisor, Office of National AIDS Policy (Cross-posted from the Office of National AIDS Policy Blog) Yesterday several White House staff posted a blog and video as part of the ‘It Gets Better‘ project. ‘It...

  • New York State Department of Health: Breaking Ground in New Media Response to HIV and STIs

    Updated: 2010-12-21 22:14:07
    By Michelle Samplin-Salgado, AIDS.gov New Media Strategist, and Michele Clark, AIDS.gov Managing Director AIDS Institute Department of Health Social Media Forum staff (L to R): Sonja Noring, Howard Lavigne, Dr. Cheryl Smith, Mark Hammer, Johanne Morne, Wanda Jones-Robinson, Peter Laqueur,...

  • Date and Location Change for 2011 IL HIV/AIDS Lobby Days

    Updated: 2010-12-21 17:45:58
    The date and location of the 2011 HIV/AIDS Lobby Days have been changed! New date and location: March 1 & 2, 2011 at the President Abraham Lincoln Hotel. More details to follow!

  • Echoes of Avandia

    Updated: 2010-12-20 21:35:49
    Big Pharma companies with weak pipelines likely envy the makers of generic drugs, whose profits stand to increase as innovators’ drugs lose patent protection. But business for generic-drug manufacturers is not necessarily simple. In fact, a lawsuit to be heard by the US Supreme Court shows that these companies may ...

  • Workshop Report: Understanding HIV Exposed but Seronegative (HESN) Individuals

    Updated: 2010-12-17 23:49:00

  • J&J’s Fort Washington Plant Cited for Quality Problems; Two Vice-Chairmen Appointed

    Updated: 2010-12-16 16:27:43
    McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a business unit of Johnson & Johnson (New Brunswick, NJ), failed to ensure the quality of over-the-counter consumer products, according to the Form 483 report released by the US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday. FDA inspected the Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, plant from Oct. 27, 2010, to ...

  • Compound with potent effects on biological clock

    Updated: 2010-12-16 16:27:42
    Using an automated screening technique developed by pharmaceutical companies to find new drugs, a team of scientists from UC San Diego and three other research institutions has discovered a molecule with the most potent effects ever seen on the biological clock. Dubbed by the researchers "longdaysin," for its ability to dramatically slow down the biological clock, the new compound and the application of their screening method to the discovery of other clock-shifting chemicals could pave the way for a host of new drugs to treat severe sleep disorders or quickly reset the biological clocks of jet-lagged travelers who regularly travel across multiple time zones........

  • Testing What’s Proven

    Updated: 2010-12-15 22:26:21
    “Just because an idea is true doesn’t mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn’t mean it’s true.” This quote is part of an article by Jonah Lehrer appearing in the Dec. 13, 2010, New Yorker Annals of Science column, in which Lehrer questions the ...

  • Focus on the Transgender Community: Interview with Bamby Salcedo

    Updated: 2010-12-15 02:05:07
    By Michelle Samplin-Salgado, AIDS.gov New Media Strategist Bamby Salcedo, Transgender Harm Reduction Project As we've discussed in previous posts, the transgender community has been disproportionately affected by HIV, and often faces challenges finding and accessing appropriate services. The National HIV/AIDS...

  • Doing Right By World AIDS Day: Putting Community Front and Center

    Updated: 2010-12-14 18:28:51
    By Aryeh Lebeau, General Manager, TheBody.com Aryeh Lebeau, TheBody.com World AIDS Day, December 1, presents a unique challenge to a website such as TheBody.com that is devoted to all things HIV/AIDS year-round. How do we commemorate the day in a...

  • The Real Scrooge this Christmas? Cardinal George and the Pro-Birth Agenda

    Updated: 2010-12-14 17:05:13
    Search this site : Home About Us I Need . PEER Education Community Blog Calendar HIV AIDS News Job Volunteer Board Contact Us You are here Blogs Pistol Pete's blog The Real Scrooge this Christmas Cardinal George and the Pro-Birth Agenda The Real Scrooge this Christmas Cardinal George and the Pro-Birth Agenda By Pistol Pete Posted on 14 December 2010 Via Huffington Post Wishes don't come true often but for 35 million Americans , health care reform is about as close as it gets to a Christmas . miracle Apparently Cardinal George didn't get the . memo The U.S . Conference of Catholic Bishops , until recently under the leadership of Chicago's own Cardinal Francis George , officially opposes health care reform Merry Christmas , the poor and forgotten of America This , my friends , is . crazy

  • 3.5 Years After CCR5-Negative Stem Cell Transplant, Berlin Man Remains Free of Detectable HIV

    Updated: 2010-12-09 23:25:01

  • Speaking out on healthcare reform

    Updated: 2010-12-09 19:21:25
    The Chicago AIDS Foundation Director of Government Relations, John Peller, testified at a recent hearing on healthcare reform by The Illinois Healthcare Reform Implementation Council in Springfield.   read more

  • Open Access Journal Supplement: Recent Trends in Microbicide Formulations

    Updated: 2010-12-09 18:15:14

  • Embryonic stem cell research

    Updated: 2010-12-09 13:57:50
    States, not the federal government, now fund the majority of human embryonic stem cell research conducted in the United States, as per a recent study in the journal Nature Biotechnology In addition, states varied substantially in the extent to which they prioritized human embryonic stem cell research, and much of the research performed in the states could likely have been funded by the National Institutes of Health under federal guidelines established by President Bush in 2001........

  • Autism breakthrough

    Updated: 2010-12-09 13:57:50
    Eastern Virginia Medical School scientists have identified a potential novel therapy strategy for the social impairment of people with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), an aspect of the condition that has a profound impact on quality of life. "Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorders are either disinterested in social interactions or find them unpleasant. They often don't understand what other people are thinking or feeling and misinterpret social cues," said Stephen I. Deutsch, MD, PhD, the Ann Robinson Chair and professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. "Sadly, persons with autism spectrum disorders are often painfully aware of their limited sociability, which can lead to profound feelings of sadness and frustration"........

  • Questions about genetic testing of newborns

    Updated: 2010-12-07 19:35:32
    Required genetic screening of newborns for rare diseases is creating unexpected upheaval for families whose infants test positive for risk factors but show no immediate signs of the diseases, a new UCLA study warns. "Eventhough newborn screening undoubtedly saves lives, some families are thrown on a journey of great uncertainty," said UCLA sociology professor Stefan Timmermans, the study's main author. "Rather than providing clear-cut diagnoses, screening of an entire population has created ambiguity about whether infants truly have a disease and even what the disease is." ........

  • Abortive HIV Infection of CD4 T Cells Can Cause Their Depletion

    Updated: 2010-12-07 03:51:25

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