... though I had a low viral load and 1,100 T-cells." Steve's doctors, too, advised ... denial -- the "you can't run away from HIV by ignoring it" syndrome. But all along, a ... that triple-combination therapy can't stamp out HIV. Leading researchers reported that there's always some ... those who respond best to therapy. This holdout HIV raises the specter that the slow evolution of drug-resistant HIV may be inevitable; sooner or later, the ...
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... be able to quit the cocktail and keep HIV in check. The scientific quest to unravel the mysteries of HIV has always had a certain yin and yang ... big idea? It's pretty straightforward. If anti-HIV cocktails can't completely rid the body of ... see if the immune system can contain what HIV is left? The theory strikes skeptics as a ... 30-year-old cancer chemotherapy, a decade-old vaccine dreamt up by the late Jonas Salk, ...
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... the local news about a Phase III AIDS vaccine trial, sponsored by VaxGen, opening in nearby Washington ... year-old. No, I told her, I'm HIV negative. That's why I should do the ... study. They need people like me to test vaccines. "You mean, they're going to give you ... to imitate one on the outer surface of HIV, to induce antibodies against the virus. My blood ... the course of three years to check the vaccine's efficacy. While my nieces peppered me ...
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October 1999 21st Century Vax by Richard Jefferys Vaccine advances into unexplored territory, a place where prevention ... AIDSvax trial, the first-ever large phase III HIVvaccine study. Magazines and newspapers across the country began ... 25 million for research to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), while President Clinton recently dedicated a new vaccine research center at the National Institutes of ...
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... Runs Through It by Timothy Burton Contaminated polio vaccines started AIDS in Africa in the '50s. A ... The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS (Little, Brown and Company/Boston), written ... and former BBC correspondent Edward Hooper, proposes that HIV emerged from a contaminated batch of experimental oral polio vaccine (OPV) administered to Africans in the late 1950s ... Altman, MD.) The institute that first produced the vaccine responded by promising to test its old ...
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... Walter Armstrong Shots in the Dark, an AIDS-vaccine saga, has it all: mysteries and scandals, best ... the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine (Penguin) belongs next to Randy Shilts' And the ... Jon Cohen: The biggest problem has been scientific: HIV is a tough bug to beat. In the ... immune system that exists to defeat it. If HIV were, say, poliovirus -- which can simply be defeated by antibodies -- we'd have a vaccine. That said, I think the AIDS-vaccine ...
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IR103 belongs to a class of anti-HIV drugs called Immune-Based Therapies. For a description ... you to compare all the currently available anti-HIV drugs, including dosing, side effects, & dietary restrictions. Treatment ... a list of great books about living with HIV and making informed treatment decisions, along with easy ... including POZ, the nation's leading magazine covering HIV and AIDS, click here. IR103 en español ... Administration (FDA) for use by people living with HIV. What is IR103? IR103 is a "therapeutic ...
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Remune belongs to a class of anti-HIV drugs called Immune-Based Therapies. For a description ... targets of each class of drugs, click here. Remune is being developed by The Immune Response Corporation ... you to compare all the currently available anti-HIV drugs, including dosing, side effects, & dietary restrictions. Treatment ... Search for recent news and archived stories about Remune. Have more questions? Then post a question ...
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