Sexually transmitted diseases and infections

Scanning electron micrograph of HIV particles infecting a human H9 T cell, colorized in blue, turqoise, and yellow.

A new study suggests the HIV virus may be getting weaker

Science

A new study suggests that HIV, like other diseases in history, may be getting less virulent over time. But the study’s authors warn there’s still plenty of danger from HIV/AIDS.

A smoke trail is seen as a rocket is launched towards Israel from the northern Gaza Strip July 11, 2014.

Hamas targets Israelis with a ‘pop song’ — that promises their death and destruction

Global Scan
Men hug as they take part in the annual Gay Pride Parade on Christopher Street in the Manhattan borough of New York June 29, 2014.

The WHO has simple advice for sexually active gay men: Take your antiretrovirals!

Health & Medicine

Cancer’s New Battleground: Infectious diseases a leading cancer cause

Health & Medicine

Key finding in AIDS research

Health & Medicine

Global Implications of HIV Infected Baby Deemed to be Cured

Health & Medicine

Scientists say a girl born with HIV two-and-a-half years ago appears to have been cured. Though the apparent breakthrough is limited to one infant case, the news may give hope to the millions of people living with the HIV virus around the globe.

Panel Endorses HIV Drug Truvada for FDA Approval

We have known about Truvada for a while. Now, an influential advisory panel of the Food and Drug Administration has endorsed the drug shown to prevent HIV infection in healthy people. It recommended approval of the pill for people at risk of contracting the virus. A final decision is expected next month, but if FDA […]

The World

Random-Matrix Theory Could Help Fight HIV

Environment

The Ragon Institute used random-matrix theory to analyze enzymes, and develop new ways to treat HIV. Arup Chakraborty talks about the results and how random-matrix theory factored into his research.

The World

US apologizes for 1940s Guatemala Syphilis experiments

Global Politics

U.S. officials have apologized for immoral experiments done on hundreds of Guatemalans in the 1940s to test the effectiveness of penicillin in treating syphilis. Dr. Art Caplan at the University of Pennsylvania and Susan Reverby at Wellesley College.

The World

Good news in HIV protection but more trials necessary

Environment

The International AIDS conference in Vienna is underway and there’s excitement about a new study showing that there may be a new effective microbicide to help prevent against HIV infection. Science Magazine correspondent, Jon Cohen, is at the conference.