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Half of the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine will be shared by two researchers credited with their discovery of HIV. French researchers Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi will be honored...

At the 20th. Annual Living with AIDS Conference in Utah, experts warn that the booming crystal meth problem is contributing to new hiv cases around the country. The growing cocaine...

This is going to sound a bit crazy but I was watching television a couple nights ago and stumbled upon a vampire movie. Like all good Hollywood vampires, they were...

On Friday, two Minnesota radio talk show hosts claimed that Magic Johnson faked his HIV diagnosis. The talk show hosts have rationalized that Magic must have faked his diagnosis because...

A new report in the journal Nature says new analysis of preserved blood specimens now estimates that HIV could be 100 years old. Analysis estimates that HIV arose somewhere between...

A new tuberculosis vaccine reduced the incidence of the disease by 37% among HIV-positive people during a clinical trial in Tanzania, according to a study presented by lead researcher Ford von Reyn at the 39th Union World Conference on Lung health in Paris, This Day reports.

Loyola University researcher Dr. Michael Koller advises us all that now is the time to get your flu shot. Once you've had the flu it's not something you will soon...

A recent study published in The Lancet has found that the proportion of IV drug users that are HIV positive may exceed 40 percent in at least nine countries around...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning against the use of a dietary supplement known as Xiadafil VIP. This supplement, sold over the counter, is commonly used...

Aboriginal youth from northern parts of the Canadian province of British Columbia recently gathered for a three-day conference on HIV/AIDS in an effort to curb the spread of the disease in their communities, the CP/Prince George Citizen reports.