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AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome)

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Doctors say marrow transplant may have cured AIDS (Thursday, November 13, 2008)
An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally...>>More
More countries make spreading HIV a crime (Thursday, November 13, 2008)
An increasing number of countries worldwide are making spreading HIV a crime, according to a new report from the International Planned Parenthood Federation...>>More
WHO: Heart, infectious diseases, cancer kill most (Monday, October 27, 2008)
Heart ailments, infectious diseases and cancer remain the world's top three killers, the U.N. health agency said Monday...>>More
AIDS treatment should start sooner, study finds (Monday, October 27, 2008)
People who have the AIDS virus should start drug treatments sooner than current guidelines recommend, suggests a large new study that could change the...>>More
Nev. agency links 114 hepatitis cases to 2 clinics (Thursday, October 23, 2008)
Investigators think they've identified almost everyone who may have contracted the potentially deadly hepatitis C virus at two Las Vegas outpatient medical...>>More
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