#inflammation

Aside from taking antiretrovirals, quitting smoking is the number one way people with HIV can lower their risk of illness and death.

A study found that 49 percent of grade four health events in people living with HIV are caused by inflammation-related disease.

Smoking marijuana could reduce cognitive decline in people living with HIV.

The Campbell Foundation awards $100,000 to The Wistar Institute to explore glycobiology and HIV.

Highlights from HIV and hepatitis C research presented at the 2018 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston

With a grant to follow their large study population through 2021, researchers hope to gain vital new insights about HIV infection.

Treatments to reduce inflammation could help make HIV even less of a threat to health than antiretrovirals can alone.

A recent small study found that pot smokers had less evidence of inflammation associated with cognitive decline.

A $3.2 million federal grant will fund the largest and most comprehensive study exploring this question.

Researchers found a way to block a protein linked with blood clotting and inflammatory processes using a drug derived from tick saliva.

Researchers may have answered a bedeviling chicken-or-egg question about the persistence of HIV during antiretroviral treatment.

Without the proper immune protection, certain bacteria may be able to enter the bloodstream through the intestines and cause harm.

HIV-positive people with deficient levels of the vitamin saw less of a reduction in cholesterol while taking Crestor in a recent trial.

The virus itself appears to be the primary driver, likely due to the chronic inflammatory state it prompts.

Taking omega-3 fatty acid supplements may lower triglycerides and inflammation.

This may occur even when people living with the virus have an undetectable viral load.