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		<title>Human trials under way for new HIV vaccine</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first human trials for the new HIV injectible vaccine are under way, containing a specific protein which will target the most virulent strain of the virus. Researchers from the Imperial College London, the Hull York Medical School, the Medical Research Council clinical trial unit and the Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) have come together [...]]]></description>
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		<title>`Lock and key` that allow HIV to enter cell’s nucleus discovered</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have unearthed the ‘lock and key’ that facilitates HIV to enter cell’s nucleus, disable the immune system and cause AIDS. The finding provides a potential new target for anti-AIDS drugs that could be more effective against drug-resistant strains of the virus. HIV is transmitted through bodily fluids, primarily infected blood or semen. Once inside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soon, spam filters to tackle HIV</title>
		<link>http://news.bioscholar.com/2011/12/soon-spam-filters-to-tackle-hiv.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The inventor of Microsoft’s spam filter believes that the principle behind keeping spam out of inboxes can also work to keep the AIDS virus at bay. David Heckerman, who is a doctor apart from being a Microsoft researcher, shifted his attention from protecting email systems to protecting body systems, and has been working for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Premier vows to implement measures to help AIDS patients</title>
		<link>http://news.bioscholar.com/2011/12/chinese-premier-vows-to-implement-measures-to-help-aids-patients.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has vowed to implement new measures to help citizens living with HIV/AIDS obtain affordable drug treatment, get fair job treatment and education chances. China’s State Council would send inspection teams to regions having high HIV/AIDS prevalence to oversee the implementation of government policies, he added. Jiabao promised that the Chinese Government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green tea flavonoid helps prevent hepatitis C virus from entering liver</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A flavonoid found in green tea inhibits the hepatitis C virus (HVC) from entering the liver, a new study has found. According to German researchers, epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) may offer an antiviral strategy to prevent HCV reinfection following liver transplantation. HCV infection can lead to chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) or primary liver cancer. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dip in AIDS deaths: UN report (Dec 1 is World AIDS Day)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BioNews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of people dying due to HIV-AIDS has declined by nearly 0.4 million in the last five years due to improved healthcare, a UN report said Wednesday. However, it cautioned that a large number of people continue to be unaware about their HIV status. &#8220;The annual number of people dying from AIDS-related causes worldwide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIDS on the downswing in Brazil, but 630,000 still sick</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BioNews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mortality rate from AIDS in Brazil fell from 7.6 per 100,000 suffering from the disease to 6.3 between 1998 and 2010, but there are still 630,000 carriers of the HIV virus in the country, the health ministry announced Monday. The statistic was presented by Minister Alexandre Padilha, who warned that, although the incidence of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How antibody disarms HIV virus by using its sugar cloak</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study has shed light on how one broadly neutralizing HIV antibody actually uses part of the sugary cloak to help bind to the virus and disarm it. HIV is coated in sugars that usually hide the virus from the immune system. The study led by Peter D. Kwong, Ph.D., chief of the Structural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discovery on measles could spur less toxic cancer cure</title>
		<link>http://news.bioscholar.com/2011/11/discovery-on-measles-could-spur-less-toxic-cancer-cure.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BioNews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new discovery about the measles virus, arguably the most virulent pathogen which afflicts 10 million children worldwide, could also help spur less toxic cancer treatments. The discovery by Roberto Cattaneo of the Mayo Clinic in the US and Veronika von Messling of Canada&#8217;s INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier research centre and others showed that measles virus exits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powerful HIV Inhibitor makes virus mutation ‘nearly impossible’</title>
		<link>http://news.bioscholar.com/2011/11/powerful-hiv-inhibitor-makes-virus-mutation-%e2%80%98nearly-impossible%e2%80%99.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BioNews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[US scientists have created an inhibitor using a combination of two drugs to help prevent HIV virus from being transmitted. The inhibitor, a novel combination of two existing drugs, has a strength that ranges from several times better than existing inhibitors to several hundred times better, depending on the strain of HIV. The inhibitor works [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What makes measles world’s most contagious viral disease</title>
		<link>http://news.bioscholar.com/2011/11/what-makes-measles-world%e2%80%99s-most-contagious-viral-disease.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered why measles is so much more contagious than other respiratory viruses. The virus emerges in the trachea of its host, provoking a cough that fills the air with particles ready to infect the next host. The findings may also help in the fight against ovarian, breast and lung cancers. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Around 60,000 new HIV/AIDS cases in China</title>
		<link>http://news.bioscholar.com/2011/11/around-60000-new-hivaids-cases-in-china.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BioNews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[China has recorded about 429,000 registered AIDS patients and HIV carriers by the end of September, Xinhua reported. According to the official figures released Monday, these statistics are up by nearly 60,000 over the past 11 months. China&#8217;s Minister for Health Chen Zhu, during a conference jointly held by the Ministry and the UNAIDS&#8217;s Theme [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hendra virus vaccine comes closer to reality</title>
		<link>http://news.bioscholar.com/2011/10/hendra-virus-vaccine-comes-closer-to-reality.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BioNews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A revolutionary new human antibody is showing promise against deadly Hendra virus, US researchers say. Hendra virus and the closely related Nipah virus are found in Pteropid fruit bats (flying foxes) and are emerging viruses capable of causing severe illness and death in a variety of domestic animals and humans. The latest outbreak of Hendra [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Largest virus yet discovered found off the coast of Chile</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have isolated the largest virus yet discovered from ocean water pulled up off the coast of Chile. Called Megavirus chilensis, it is 10 to 20 times longer than the average virus. It just beats the previous record holder, Mimivirus, which was found in a water cooling tower in the UK in 1992. Scientists reported [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New &#8221;wonder&#8221; pill set to revolutionise hepatitis C treatment</title>
		<link>http://news.bioscholar.com/2011/10/new-wonder-pill-set-to-revolutionise-hepatitis-c-treatment.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new wonder pill breakthrough is hailing a new era of treatment for hundreds of thousands of people in Britain with Hepatitis C. The treatment has been found to completely clear the virus in twice as many patients as current drugs and can halve treatment time to just six months. This means Incivo will clear [...]]]></description>
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