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$750/pill pharma company reverses decision to lower drug price
Turing will offer hospitals and patients discounts, but high list price stands.
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$750/pill pharma company reverses decision to lower drug price
Turing Pharmaceuticals AG will not reverse its decision to raise the price of a decades-old drug, Daraprim, by more than 5,000 percent, backing out of previous statements that it would cut the cost by the end of the year. In an announcement on Tuesday, the company said that the list price of Daraprim, which jumped from $13.50 a pill to $750 a pill earlier this year, will not change. Instead, the company will offer hospitals up to 50 percent discounts and will make...
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Dating apps prove factor in HIV rise among adolescents
More adolescents are killed by HIV/Aids around the world than by anything else, apart from road traffic accidents. While HIV infection rates have been falling globally in the past 10 years or so, among adolescents in some regions they have been on the rise - prompting fears of a "hidden epidemic". One in eight new HIV infections occurs in this group of young people.
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A Country in Love with Injections and Drips
In Cambodia when people see a doctor they usually expect to get an injection or an intravenous drip - but this has serious, sometimes tragic, consequences.
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Tinder Adds STD Testing Center Locator to Dating App
A new health safety page provides prevention and testing information. The dating app Tinder agreed Thursday to provide information on testing locations for sexually transmitted diseases, ending a feud with a California advocacy group. Tinder has battled with the Los Angeles based AIDS Health Foundation since the group launched an ad campaign last fall linking the mobile dating app with the spread of STDs. Tinder responded to the charge with...
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HIV-Positive Organ Transplants Set to Begin at Johns Hopkins
Doctors say organ transplants from HIV-positive donors to HIV-positive recipients will save lives and shorten wait times for everyone. NPR spoke with one doctor who helped end the 25-year ban.
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Inside A Small Brick House At The Heart Of Indiana's Opioid Crisis
Prescription painkiller abuse sparked an HIV outbreak in rural Indiana. Kelly McEvers takes NPR's new podcast, Embedded, inside the home where IV drug users meet.
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U.S. Spent $1.4 Billion to Stop HIV by Promoting Abstinence. Did It Work?
The money was part of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. It went to sex ed classes and public health messages in Africa. Effective or not? A new study offers a clear verdict.
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HIV-Positive Women In Uganda Are Being Sterilized Without Their Consent
Five years after her rights were allegedly violated by a trusted custodian of her health, Harriet, an HIV-positive Ugandan who requested her real name not be used, still cannot bring herself to go anywhere near the hospital where the abuse took place. She tries not to think about the betrayal, and since finding out the shocking truth, has not come face-to-face with the doctor responsible for it. But the doctor’s image will be forever ingrained in Harriet’s memory.
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Atlanta's HIV 'epidemic' compared to third world African countries
A deadly disease is rampant in Metro Atlanta, and scientists are calling it an epidemic. Channel 2's Dave Huddleston spoke with researchers and doctors who said Atlanta is the epicenter of that epidemic, comparing some neighborhoods to developing African countries. J.R. Watson is a towering man, and the only hair on his head is a handle-bar mustache. Just by looking at him, you'd never know he has AIDS. He recalled the moment he found out he was positive 20 years ago.
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An HIV cure just got one step closer
Scientists have managed to remove DNA of the HIV virus from living tissue for the first time in a breakthrough that could lead to an outright cure. At the moment, treating the disease involves the use of drugs that suppress levels of the virus so the body’s immune system can cope. Now researchers in the US have revealed they used gene-editing technology to remove DNA of the commonest HIV-1 strain from several organs of infected mice and rats.
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Hope for ‘end of Aids’ is disappearing, experts warn
Those fighting epidemic say 2030 target is unrealistic as efforts to defeat it falter amid rising infection levels and drug resistance. By Sarah Boseley.
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Sexually active seniors facing increased risk of STDs
According to the CDC, in some instances the rates of STD infection for people over 65 rivals that of people in their 20s.
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New, aggressive strain of HIV discovered in Cuba
Scientists have discovered a highly aggressive new strain of HIV in Cuba that develops into AIDS three times faster than more common strains of the virus. This finding could have serious public health implications for efforts to contain and reduce incidences of the virus worldwide. Researchers at the University of Leuven in Belgium say the HIV strain CRF19 can progress to AIDS within two to three years of exposure to virus. Typically, HIV takes approximately 10 years to develop into AIDS. Patients with CRF19 may start getting sick before they even know they've been infected...
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HIV cure close after disease 'vanishes' from blood of British man
A British man could become the first person in the world to be cured of HIV using a new therapy designed by a team of scientists from five UK universities. The 44-year-old is one of 50 people currently trialling a treatment which targets the disease even in its dormant state. Scientists told The Sunday Times that presently the virus is completely undetectable in the man’s blood and if it remains that way it will be the first complete cure.
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Scientists testing HIV cure report 'remarkable' progress after patient breakthrough
UK scientists and clinicians working on a groundbreaking trial to test a possible cure for HIV infection say they have made remarkable progress after a test patient showed no sign of the virus following treatment. The research, being carried out by five of Britain’s top universities with NHS support, is combining standard antiretroviral drugs with a drug that reactivates dormant HIV and a vaccine that induces the immune system to destroy the infected cells.
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The children with a built-in defense against AIDS
In South Africa, a rare group of children unknowingly find themselves resistant to the effects of HIV. Even without antiretroviral treatment, they will never develop AIDS, or so scientists believe. Unlike adults and other children who succumb to the virus if not treated -- enabling it to attack their immune cells and weakening their immunity to disease -- these kids harbor huge amounts of HIV within their blood but remain unscathed. In fact, they're healthy.
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Scientists develop HIV test using a USB stick
Researchers at Imperial College London and the privately-held U.S. firm DNA Electronics developed a type of HIV test using a USB Stick that will give a fast and highly accurate reading of how much virus is in a patient’s blood. The device needs a drop of blood to be placed onto a spot on the USB stick to detect HIV and then creates an electrical signal that can read by a computer, laptop or handheld device. The USB stick is not only very accurate, but it can offer results on HIV levels in less than 30 minutes.
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On Trial: The Man with HIV who says He had Sex with 104 Women and Girls
A man with HIV who says he had ritual sex with 104 women and girls faces up to five years in jail, if convicted. But some ask why the children's parents are not in the dock too.
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Scientists Have Identified an Antibody That Neutralises 98% of HIV Strains
Scientists have discovered an antibody produced by an HIV-positive patient that neutralises 98 percent of all HIV strains tested - including most of the strains that are resistant to other antibodies of the same class. Due to HIV’s ability to rapidly respond to the body’s immune defences, an antibody that can block a wide range of strains has been very hard to come by. But now that we’ve found one, it could form the basis of a new vaccine against the virus.
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