Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: AIDS vaccine

AIDS vaccine stories: 9 news summaries

 AIDS Vaccine Data Overstated 

Much-hyped Thai results statistically insignificant, researchers say

Oct 20, 09 2:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - The data from last month’s much-hyped Thai AIDS vaccine trial are actually statistically insignificant, according to a secondary analysis published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. The original results from the trial, which included more than 16,000 people, concluded that the vaccine reduced infections by... More »

MORE ABOUT:
AIDS • Thailand • AIDS vaccine • clinical trials • peer reviews • medical study

 Vaccine Cuts HIV 
 Infection Rate by 1/3 

Watershed US-Thai study is first to show success

Sep 24, 09 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new vaccine tested in Thailand has protected a significant minority of subjects against HIV infection—marking the first time a vaccine has shown even partial success against the virus that causes AIDS. The 16,000-volunteer study, undertaken by the US Army, the Thai health ministry, and two drug companies,... More »

MORE ABOUT:
AIDS • Thailand • HIV • vaccine • antibodies • AIDS vaccine • HIV/AIDS • infection rate

Breakthrough Raises Hope for HIV Vaccine

Antibodies could help scientists combat elusive virus' defenses

Sep 3, 09 3:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Researchers have found two antibodies that neutralize the AIDS virus more successfully than any identified in the past, resurrecting hopes that it may be possible to develop an effective vaccine, Time reports. The new antibodies are effective against a broad range of HIV variants, neutralizing the virus’ most effective defense:... More »

MORE ABOUT:
HIV • vaccine • immune system • mutation • antibodies • virus • AIDS vaccine • National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Disease • Anthony Fauci

Giving Away
Billions Feels Great: Gates

Microsoft founder
touts philan-therapy
for world's rich

Jun 3, 09 3:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bill Gates is touting the feel-good benefits of giving away money, telling a crowd in Oslo that “all billionaires should give away the vast majority of their fortunes.” Leave enough for the kids, he says, but, “I’m a great believer that great wealth should go from... More »

MORE ABOUT:
philanthropy • Bill Gates • vaccine • charity • poverty • billionaire • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation • AIDS vaccine

 Gene Tests Yield 
 Results in AIDS Fight  

Antibodies prevent HIV from spreading in monkeys

May 18, 09 3:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - A back-door approach to battling AIDS that could revolutionize treatment has succeeded in monkeys, AP reports. Scientists inserted a gene that produces protective antibodies into the muscles of six monkeys, then injected them with SIV—the animal equivalent of HIV. None developed AIDS, and most still had high amounts of... More »

MORE ABOUT:
study • medical research • AIDS vaccine • HIV/AIDS • medical study

(Newser) - A technology entrepreneur has given Massachusetts General Hospital its largest gift ever—$100 million—to create an interdisciplinary institute focused on finding an AIDS vaccine, the Boston Globe reports. The institute will bring together doctors and scientists from MGH, Harvard, and MIT, including engineers and mathematicians, who would otherwise... More »

MORE ABOUT:
philanthropy • HIV • MIT • Harvard • AIDS vaccine • Massachusetts General Hospital • Terrence Ragon

 On World AIDS Day, a Call
for Sounder Science 

Stronger research would trump futile drug trials

Dec 1, 08 12:25 PM CST
(Newser) - Researchers are hopeful they can develop an AIDS vaccine despite the recent, high-profile failures of two clinical trials, Health Day reports. But progress must be built on solid science and convincing preliminary results in animals. “There have been a lot of calls for a return to basic science,”... More »

MORE ABOUT:
AIDS • HIV • vaccine • medical research • AIDS vaccine • HIV/AIDS • World AIDS Day • human trials

Cold Virus Foiled AIDS Vaccine

Study subjects with immunity to common virus saw increased risk with vaccine

Nov 8, 07 1:08 PM CST
(Newser) - A promising AIDS vaccine that failed in trials—actually increasing rather than reducing risk of infection—turned out to be ineffective in people who had immunity to a common cold virus, developers reported yesterday. The Merck vaccine contained an altered version of that virus, and study subjects with existing immunities... More »

MORE ABOUT:
AIDS • Merck • HIV • AIDS vaccine

AIDS Vaccine Fails in Trials

Clinical trials suspended after dismal results for most promising vaccine

Sep 22, 07 8:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Heavy hopes riding on an HIV vaccine were dashed as the vaccine proved so ineffective in a clinical trial that manufacturer Merck has ended the trial early. The vaccine had shown promise in animal and small-scale human tests but neither prevented nor reduced the severity of infection in a large-scale... More »

MORE ABOUT:
AIDS • AIDS vaccine

9 Stories


from our news partners