Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Truvada for use as a preventative measure against HIV infection in at-risk people. Already prescribed as a treatment for HIV, Truvada was shown in clinical trials to cut the risk of ... Read More...
The FDA has approved a new at-home test for HIV. The OraQuick test, manufactured by Orasure, detects the presence of HIV in the saliva through a sample collected with a mouth swab with results ready in 20 to 40 minutes. The faster results and ... Read More...
Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Gustin Reichbach is raising a few eyebrows with his admission in a New York Times editorial on Thursday that he uses marijuana to cope with the side effects of chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer. Medical ... Read More...
While the world acknowledges AIDS days today, New York City’s health commissioner, Dr. Thomas Farley, is pushing an aggressive policy to eradicate new HIV infections in New York City by recommending that doctors begin to treat it as soon as it is ... Read More...
In honor of World AIDs Days, Vitals.com wants to encourage everyone to take charge of their health and get expert care. With increasing number of people worldwide, 33.3 million living with HIV/AIDS, we need to support the effort and improve the ... Read More...
Public health officials are calmly but vigilantly pursuing a possible new threat to the nation’s blood supply linked to prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome. The virus, dubbed XMRV for the awful-sounding xenotropic murine leukemia ... Read More...
Dr. Lynne Kelley is a nationally recognized vascular surgeon and Vice President Medical Director for Kimberly-Clark Healthcare. Dr. Kelley is determined to help prevent and reduce Healthcare Associated Infections and she has developed clinical ... Read More...
A vaccine to prevent HIV, the virus that leads to AIDs, is an impossible dream that is materializing on the horizon. Results of a trial have raised hopes that this disease which kills millions every year can be beaten. The trial, one of the ... Read More...
In the late 19th Century, Victorian era doctors described the male foreskin as “a source of mischief”, according to the Sunday New York Times. Now in the 21st century studies are showing that cells in the foreskin act as a magnet for HIV, Herpes ... Read More...
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