HIV Arrived in the U.S. Long Before ‘Patient Zero’October 27, 2016 |
In the tortuous mythology of the AIDS epidemic, one legend never seems to die: Patient Zero, a.k.a. Gaétan Dugas, a globe-trotting, sexually insatiable French Canadian flight attendant who supposedly picked up H.I.V. in Haiti or Africa and spread it to dozens, even hundreds, of men before his death in 1984
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7 Insurers Alleged To Have Discriminated Against HIV PatientsOctober 19, 2016 |
The Affordable Care Act prohibits insurers from discriminating against people with serious illnesses, but some marketplace plans sidestep that taboo by making the drugs that people with HIV need unavailable or unaffordable, complaints filed recently with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights allege
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Early trials by UK universities give grounds for optimism after patient shows no sign of virus following treatment
Quick ReadThis research will make it more possible to one day do the same in humans
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Study used CRISPR technology to introduce HIV-resistance mutation into nonviable human embryos
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First Transplant from HIV-Positive Donor Performed in USMarch 31, 2016 |
The first U.S. liver and kidney transplants from a donor with HIV were completed at Johns Hopkins Medicine
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Johns Hopkins to Perform First HIV-Positive Organ Transplants in USFebruary 10, 2016 |
Dr. Dorry Segev, an associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, estimated that organs from 500 to 600 H.I.V.-positive potential donors have gone to waste each year and that allowing those donations could save more than 1,000 people
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US Still in Danger of Losing War on AIDS, CDC Director SaysDecember 1, 2015 |
Despite major medical advances and more than 30 years of effort, the United States is still in danger of losing the war on AIDS, according to the country’s top disease-control official
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