Lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injectable HIV-1 capsid inhibitor, has shown 100% efficacy in preventing HIV in women at a high risk for infection, according to an interim analysis of the phase 3 PURPOSE 1 trial. The results were so promising that the independent data monitoring committee recommended that Gilead Sciences stop the blinded phase of the […]
HIV/AIDS
New HIV Infections After Vampire Facials at Unlicensed Spa
At least three clients of an unlicensed spa in New Mexico contracted HIV after receiving platelet-rich plasma (PRP) microneedling facials, according to an investigation by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The investigation, spanning 5 years with parts of it still ongoing, has resulted in the closure of the spa and is […]
No Longer a Death Sentence, HIV Diagnosis Still Hits Hard
Veronica Brady and her team at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston sat down with 37 people diagnosed with HIV or AIDS to ask them what that felt like. “The results were really eye-opening, and sad,” says Brady, PhD, RN, from the Cizik School of Nursing with UTHealth. Read more in Medscape.
‘We’ve never had a technology like Crispr before’: gene-editing moves into the clinic
When Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier revealed that the bacterial Crispr–Cas9 antiviral defence system could be reprogrammed to edit genomic DNA they could scarcely have imagined the impact their discovery would have. One Nobel prize and a decade later treatments based on the technique are racing towards the clinic. Read more in Chemistry World.
Excessive Pubic Hair Grooming Linked to Higher Rates of STIs
Shaving and grooming may create an opportunity for infections to spread. People who frequently groom or remove their pubic hair are more likely to contract sexually transmitted infections, according to new research. The researchers surveyed more than 7,500 people aged 18-65 from across the United States, and found that two-thirds of men and 84 percent […]
NIAID director wins Canada Gairdner Global Health Award
Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci has been awarded 2016’s Global Health Award from the Gairdner Foundation for his decades of work against HIV/AIDS. Anthony Fauci, the director of the US National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has won the 2016 Global Health Award from Canada’s Gairdner Foundation for […]