U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; National Institutes Of Health; NIH News; NIH Office of the Director (OD) - Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Media Contacts: Wendy Wertheimer, Office of AIDS Research, 301-496-0357, e-mail:Wertheimer@nih.gov | Laura Sivitz, NIAID Office of Communications, 301-402-1663, e-mail:niaidnews@niaid.nih.gov
New State-Of-The Art Treatment Guidelines for HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents Released On Dec. 1, the National Institutes of Health joins the global community in commemorating World AIDS Day. On this occasion, we remember the more than 25 million people who have lost their lives to this terrible disease, and dedica
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; National Institutes Of Health; NIH News; National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) - Thursday, November 19, 2009
Public health experts encourage everyone between the ages of 13 and 64 to be HIV tested. Researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and the San Francisco Department of Public Health will determine whether receiving a rapid HIV test and counseling offers healthier outcomes than rapid testing alone,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; National Institutes of Health; NIH News; National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) - Monday, September 21, 2009
NIDA CONTACTS: Jeff Levine or Stephanie Older, 301-443-6245, e-mail: media@nida.nih.gov
Selected Research Focuses on Imaging the Viral Synapse, Immune System Restoration, Natural HIV Silencing Mechanisms and Elimination of Latent HIV Infections Four scientists have been selected as this year s winners of the Avant-Garde Award for HIV/AIDS research, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the Nationa
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; National Institutes Of Health; NIH News; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - Wednesday, August 26, 2009
CONTACTS: Robert Bock or Marianne Glass Miller, 301-496-5133, e-mail:bockr@mail.nih.gov | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, News Media Line: 404-639-8895, e-mail: NCHHSTPMediaTeam@cdc.gov
New guidelines to assist health care workers in preventing and treating the secondary infections that can afflict U.S. children exposed to, or infected with, HIV, were published by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The new guidelines provide a reference manual for the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; National Institutes Of Health; NIH News; National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) - Tuesday, May 26, 2009
CONTACT: Karin Lee, NIMH Press Office, 301-435-4536, e-mail:NIMHpress@nih.gov
Developing interventions to reduce the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among heterosexual men, couples and ethnically diverse populations continues to be complex and challenging. To help address this issue, NIMH awarded a two-year grant to David Perez-Jimenez, Ph.D., at the University of
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; National Institutes Of Health; NIH News; John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences (FIC) http://www.fic.nih.gov/ - Tuesday, April 14, 2009
CONTACT: Ira R. Allen, 301-496-8734, e-mail: alleni@mail.nih.gov
The Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health has awarded seven grants totaling almost $2.7 million to train HIV/AIDS researchers in 15 low- and middle-income countries. The funds are awarded under the center s 20-year-old signature AIDS International Training and Research Program, which has tra
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; National Institutes of Health NIH News, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) http://www.niams.nih.gov - Tuesday, February 10, 2009
For the first time, scientists can see an elusive protein that forms part of the shell of a retrovirus -- a finding that may help in the development of therapies to disrupt the functioning of retroviruses, which include the HIV/AIDS virus. The study, led by scientists at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculos
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