Monday, June 22, 2009

Canadian and U.S. researchers' new approach to fighting AIDS

"Treating HIV/AIDS with a combination of antiviral drugs and chemotherapy seems to destroy both the circulating virus and immune cells in which the virus hides, a team of Canadian and U.S. researchers has found. In Sunday's online issue of the journal Nature Medicine, Dr. Rafick-Pierre Sékaly of the University of Montreal and his colleagues report finding cells where HIV hides from existing treatments. Anti-AIDS therapies known as highly active anti-retroviral treatments, or HAART, target the virus's replication process but have been hampered by these reservoirs of immune system cells hiding the virus."

2 comments:

secret admirer said...

lol whats up with the bad news lately. i hope to read something nice and happy next time. write something cool and humorous rather than this gloomy stuff.

Kevin said...

gloomy? A new approach to fighting AIDS is a good thing!