This is one of the reasons that the search for new drugs with new modes of action remains critically relevant—even though about two dozen anti-HIV small-molecule drugs are currently available ...

Researchers Open New Leads in Anti-HIV Drug Development, Using a Compound Found in Nature Mar. 8, 2024 — A team of researchers has successfully modified a naturally occurring chemical compound ...

Earlier this year, for example, Williams and colleagues reported in Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, that in human cells in the lab, cocaine increased one anti-HIV medication’s ability to get ...

Different anti-HIV drugs target different steps in the process of HIV infecting ... The main cells that HIV infects are those carrying a receptor molecule called CD4 on their surface. CD4 is found on ...

One reason these benefits are so effective is that metformin inhibits the activity of the mTOR (mechanistic target of ...

Gilead and Merck & Co. have guided their once-weekly HIV combination therapy past another milestone, linking the cocktail to ...

"We drank the herbal medication that he was selling and we came back believing that we were HIV negative," she said. She stopped taking her anti-retroviral drugs, which prevent the virus ...

A Chinese research team has isolated an antibody from alpacas that can effectively inhibit HIV, providing a promising avenue for the development of new anti-AIDS drugs. The findings were recently ...

People with HIV can safely receive donated kidneys from deceased donors with the virus, according to a large study that comes ...

Patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee receiving an investigational chemokine inhibitor showed some improvements in ...

Early on, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes flu-like symptoms, which are similar across sexes. HIV symptoms in women may differ after the initial infection and include changes in menstrual ...

Physicians and their patients report that engagement in an HIV-based community rivals drug effectiveness in the ongoing efforts to curtail an epidemic. Confronting the HIV Epidemic: There's an App ...