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Early antiretroviral treatment reduces viral reservoirs in HIV-infected teens

(University of Massachusetts Medical School) A new study led by University of Massachusetts Medical School professor and immunologist Katherine Luzuriaga, MD, and Johns Hopkins Children’s Center virologist Deborah Persaud, MD, highlights the long-term benefits of early antiretroviral therapy initiated in infants.

March 4, 2013
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A vaccine that works in newborns?

(Boston Children’s Hospital) The underdeveloped immune systems of newborns don’t respond to most vaccines, leaving them at high risk for infections like rotavirus, pertussis (whooping cough) and pneumococcus. Researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have identified a potent compound that activates immune responses in newborns’ white blood cells substantially better than anything previously tested, and that Read More »

March 4, 2013
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Researchers describe first ‘functional HIV cure’ in an infant

(EurekAlert) A team of researchers from Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, the University of Mississippi Medical Center and the University of Massachusetts Medical School describe the first case of a so-called “functional cure” in an HIV-infected infant. The finding, the investigators say, may help pave the way to eliminating HIV infection in children.

March 3, 2013
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Mutation Altering Stability of Surface Molecule in Acid Enables H5N1 Infection … – Science Daily (press release)

Mutation Altering Stability of Surface Molecule in Acid Enables H5N1 Infection …Science Daily (press release)However, both the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the St. Jude Institutional Biosafety Committee concluded that the study failed to meet the definition of DURC. Clinching the case, "the addition of the key mutation in the …and more »

February 28, 2013
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Innovative policy to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV shows positive impact – February 28, 2013 – Press Release

The number of pregnant and breastfeeding women in Malawi with HIV who started life-saving antiretroviral treatment increased by more than 700 percent in one year, according to a study in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The new treatment option, called Option B+, offers all pregnant or breastfeeding women infected with HIV lifelong antiretroviral treatment Read More »