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Over the course of four decades, HIV has gone from being a near-certain death sentence to a "manageable illness." Treatment has evolved from handfuls of marginally effective tablets and capsules (and sometimes injections and infusions) to...
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My whole life i have gotten cold sores. I usually only get them about once a year, but since I started dating my boyfriend three months ago, I've already gotten 4 this month! Usually at the beginning stages of the outbreak, I just seem to think it'...
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Unfortunately, herpes is a challenging one to deal with. That’s because the skin sheds the virus, which means you’re contagious, even before you know you’re having an outbreak. But there are some things you can do.
Generally, Herpes Simplex Virus-...
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Swedish researchers announced today that preliminary trials of a new AIDS vaccine have yielded highly promising results and may be more effective than the Thai vaccine that made headlines last month. "We hope that our vaccine could increase...
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In new research to be published in Nature Medicine, scientists may have discovered why HIV-positive women tend to develop AIDS faster than men. Since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the gender differences in disease pathogenesis have...
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In a statement released by the European Parliament, Dr. Luc Montagnier, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for co-discovering the HIV virus and its link to AIDS in 1983, believes that a therapeutic vaccine for HIV+ individuals could be...