General Health

Depression is a serious illness that causes a person to feel very downtrodden and hopeless about life. Symptoms that include a loss of energy, apathy and sadness are some of the early stages of depression. In its worst cases, depression can lead to suicide. If you don’t personally suffer from depression, you probably [...]

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a serious condition that affects the body’s ability to fight off infection. A diagnosis of AIDS is made when a person develops some form of life-threatening illness not usually found in a person with a normal ability to fight infection. To date,more that fifty percent of all the persons [...]

Caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), AIDS leaves an infected person vulnerable to opportunistic infections. Since HIV was first identified as the cause of AIDS in 1983, a variety of tests have been developed that help diagnose HIV infection. Doctors determine if HIV is present in the body by identifying HIV antibodies. The [...]

Scientists at Rockefeller University and the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center have pinned down a molecule on the surface of human cells. They held the study in a mission that the research will open up the field of virology to an entirely new suite of possibilities and paves the way for future drug research. At the [...]

Harvard Medical School researchers have now identified 273 human proteins required for HIV propagation. They decided to take a different approach centered on the human proteins exploited by the virus, because they thought that antiviral drugs are currently doing a good job of keeping people alive, but these therapeutics all suffer from the resistance problem. Over [...]