There was an interesting story in the news last week about a recommendation to provide AIDS testing to most Americans between the ages of 15 and 64. More info from USA Today: The draft recommendation, issued Monday by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, is far broader than its last recommendation in 2005, which called for screening only those at high risk. “We really need to find the people who are infected and get them … Read More
Recently, we sent out a press release on a unique HIV vaccine strategy being attempted by OHSU’s Dr.Jonah Sacha and his team. Their goal: To try and outsmart AIDS. From our release: [Sacha's] studies are based on lessons learned from the immune response to both HIV and cancer. Instead of targeting the highly mutable virus itself, the new approach will target a surrogate marker of HIV infection to block the transmission of HIV. I wanted … Read More
Some encouraging news this week in the hunt for an AIDS Vaccine in the Wall Street Journal: Here’s a link to the story which includes comments from OHSU’s Dr. Louis Picker (referring to an earlier study): “It confirms what was seen in the Thai trial was real” said Louis Picker, associate director of the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute at Oregon Health Science University who reviewed the study led by Dr Barouch but … Read More
