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13 years ago
HIV Cured In ‘Berlin Patient’ via Stem Cell Transplant




On the heels of World AIDS Day comes a stunning medical breakthrough: Doctors believe an HIV-positive man who underwent a stem cell transplant has been cured as a result of the procedure.

Timothy Ray Brown, also known as the “Berlin Patient,” received the transplant in 2007 as part of a lengthy treatment course for leukemia. His doctors recently published a report in the journal Blood affirming that the results of extensive testing “strongly suggest that cure of HIV infection has been achieved.”

Brown’s case paves a path for constructing a permanent cure for HIV through genetically-engineered stem cells.

Last week, Time named another AIDS-related discovery to its list of the Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs of 2010. Recent studies show that healthy individuals who take antiretrovirals, medicine commonly prescribed for treating HIV, can reduce their risk of contracting the disease by up to 73 percent.

While these developments by no means prove a cure for the virus has been found, they can certainly provide hope for the more than 33 million people living with HIV worldwide. Alongside such findings, global efforts to combat the epidemic have accelerated as of late, with new initiatives emerging in the Philippines and South Africa this week.
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13 years ago
I heard about this on TV last year, but it's an intensive procedure.
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13 years ago
My professor was talking about this last semester. Slight Smile
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13 years ago Edited: 13 years ago, ginamarie5000
Hi Star,

You posted a message under Test Banks with an uploaded pdf file of the test bank for Bauman's 3rd ed Microbiology. The link does not work. Can you repost it please? Thank you!

Actually, can you email it to me?
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13 years ago
Hi Star,

You posted a message under Test Banks with an uploaded pdf file of the test bank for Bauman's 3rd ed Microbiology. The link does not work. Can you repost it please? Thank you!

Actually, can you email it to me?

ginamariemastriano@excite.com
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