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Washington - US AIDS experts on Friday said the cancellation of a promising AIDS vaccine test by a US government medical institute was not a major setback to research effort. They were reacting to Thursday's announcement by the national Institute of ...

SWISS PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY Roche has discontinued research on hiv therapies after determining that nothing in its pipeline would offer enough benefit over existing drugs to warrant further development.

Elders from Kenya's Luo community reject a government plan to promote circumcision to stem HIV/Aids.

A Cameroonian poet and activist living in Poland as a refugee since 1999 went on trial Friday in Warsaw charged with having "knowingly infected" 11 women with the hiv virus, his lawyer said.

There is a huge variation in cancer survival rates after treatment depending on the fact in which country cancer patients live and to which race patients belong.Professor Michel Coleman from London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine led a team of 100 scientist who examined data from 1.9 million people living in 31 countries in 1990s. Researchers examined the data on cancer survival rates taken from national registries. The study is called CONCORD and it is mainly focused on breast, colon, rectal and prostate cancers.read more

A trial of a vaccine against the AIDS virus was canceled because officials said it was unlikely to prove effective.

NEW YORK, USA(Reuters): A low-pressure system in the southeastern Caribbean Sea became a little less organized and the potential lessened for it to form into a tropical depression, the US national Hur...

Gay advocates and commentators have hailed a vote by US senators to repeal a travel ban on hiv-positive visitors or immigrants to the United States.

The Arkansas HIV/AIDS Minority Task Force on Monday considered recommending to state lawmakers that insurers be required to provide coverage for people living with the disease, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports (Frago, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 7/15). The 19-member task force was formed in January by Gov.

Compared to their victims, bullies experience a significantly higher risk of a wide range of health, safety and educational problems, according to research in the International Journal of Adolescent medicine and health.'We see that the [obvious] victims are not the only victims. The bullies are also victims of their own emotional problems,' said lead study author Jorge Srabstein, M.D., medical director of the Clinic for health Problems Related to Bullying at Children's national Medical Center in Washington, D.C.read more