HIV

Following recent analysis, researchers found that infants who received HIV vaccines showed immune response to the vaccine.

Experts at Johns Hopkins say ability to go off antiviral treatment for an extended period of time is a critical goal.

TIM-family proteins may be able to block a wide range of viral infections.

TIM-family proteins may be able to block a wide range of viral infections.

A protein found in nearly half of African Americans speeds removal of medication from the body.

Study suggests pharmacists are more than qualified to navigate outpatients with HIV through treatment options.

Ceasing treatment may be the only way to determine whether HIV is cured, but doing so carries long-term risks.

Study finds that ceasing treatment may be the only way to determine if the disease is cured, but doing so carries long-term risks.

With the recent approval of new hepatitis C treatments, payers are increasingly concerned with controlling costs in this category through policies that may affect treatment decisions.

Roughly one-third of teen girls' clinicians and almost half of teen boys' clinicians did not recommend HPV vaccination in 2013.

Just 20 or 30 years ago, mention of vitamin supplementation caused many health care professionals to talk about creating "expensive urine." Today, however, vitamin and nutrient supplementation has become an important health care intervention.

Male latex condoms are still the best strategy for reducing the spread of HIV infection.

Temple University researchers' tool requires further investigation, targets virus cells specifically.

Temple University researchers' tool requires further investigation, targets virus cells specifically.

Overall annual diagnosis rate dropped 30% from 2002 to 2011, while a significant increase was found among young men who have sex with men.

More than 2 years after ceasing antiretroviral therapy, HIV is again detectable in "Mississippi baby."

Study finds cancer management guidelines need to be updated to account for patients with HIV.

Researchers continue pursuit of vaccine that will lead to HIV cure.

Researchers find interventions targeting mental health problems and substance abuse can improve treatment outcomes.

Patients with HIV who smoke may be at even greater risk of developing smoking-related cancers.

A study finds that patients co-infected with hepatitis C and HIV who are receiving antiretroviral therapy are 80% more likely to have serious liver disease than those with hepatitis C alone.

A large epidemiologic study in Baltimore and Philadelphia shows that patients with mental illness are 4 times more likely to have HIV infection than the general population. Results of this study reveal a need for routine HIV screening in mental health facilities.

The National Institutes of Health guidelines for prevention of HIV transmission from mother to child were updated on March 28, 2014.

HIV-specialized pharmacies meet the complex needs of HIV-positive patients, helping to provide comprehensive patient care and improve medication adherence to both anti-retroviral therapies and non-HIV medications.

Therapies for hepatitis C, cancer, and orphan conditions are among the specialty drugs expected to receive approval in 2014.