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Full results show AIDS vaccine is only of modest help

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:00:01 +0000

Fresh results from the world’s first successful test of an experimental AIDS vaccine confirm that it is only marginally effective.

Yet, the findings are exciting to scientists, who think they(...)

A world first: Vaccine helps prevent HIV infection

Jennifer Vanasco — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:29:47 +0000

(Bangkok) For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many(...)

Nobel Winner predicts HIV vaccine in 5 years

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:12:32 +0000

(Stockholm) One of the scientists sharing the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering the HIV virus said on the weekend that he believes there will be a therapeutic vaccine to treat it within(...)

Scientists: Prospects bleak for AIDS vaccine

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:49:00 +0000

(Cape Town, South Africa) The global economic turmoil is likely to take its toll on AIDS research funding and add to the problems plaguing the search for a vaccine against the virus, scientists(...)

Officials: Search For HIV Vaccine Needs Overhaul

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:55:47 +0000

(Washington) Scientists will have to take “enormous intellectual leaps” to develop an AIDS vaccine in the coming years, say researchers clearly frustrated by the failure of a once-promising shot. The researchers, including a top National Institutes of Health official, want new people with new ideas to step up and join the search. They say the [...]