SAN FRANCISCO - Two-thirds of expectant mothers with HIV never get the drugs that protect their fetuses, leading the virus to spread to 370,000 newborns a year, a treatment advocacy group said. Only 33 percent of pregnant women with HIV, the human ...
Published: 4/26/2009 2:27 AM Last Modified: 4/26/2009 2:27 AM The genetic blueprint of domestic cows has been decoded in a scientific feat that traces bovine evolution and may lead to more nutritious milk, meat and increased food supply, scientists ...
and Alan Venook, a researcher at the University of California-San Francisco, both said they don't believe the study was designed just with profit in mind. Saltz praised the trial's lead scientist, Carmen Allegra, the division chief of hematology and ...
The wrecked economy last year took a 20 percent bite from the $35.1 billion endowment of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Still, the Microsoft Corp. founder said he'll increase his group's charitable spending this year. The Seattle-based ...
At every International AIDS Conference, set apart from the meeting halls where science and politics battle, there’s a place called the Global Village. Its a fleeting community where HIV-positive people and their advocates create a week-long DMZ free of ...
“Right now we’re seeing a backlash against AIDS,” longtime AIDS activist Gregg Gonsalves declared in a plenary address today at the 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Some health and development specialists are arguing over the ...
WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases The NIH’s Anthony Fauci, who once cautioned that there might never be a traditional vaccine to prevent HIV ...
It’s time to get over the flaws that felled the early crops of experimental AIDS vaccines and move to more fertile scientific ground, according to Seth Berkley, head of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. Berkley (pictured) told the Health Blog ...
WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health. Setbacks in the quest for a vaccine against AIDS are leading researchers to think about other ways to cut HIV infections. Some drug experts at the 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico City ...
WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health. The term “non-profit drug developer” may seem as much an oxymoron as “jumbo shrimp” – especially when a year of therapy with some modern drugs can cost as much as a down payment on a home. Malaria a ...
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