HIV/AIDS

$10 Million Red Cross fine highlights the troubled history of its blood services

$10 Million Red Cross fine highlights the troubled history of its blood services

The FDA recently hit the American Red Cross with a nearly $10 million fine for safety violations, lax oversight and faulty testing of its blood services. The fine is just the latest of more than a dozen the Red Cross has racked up in the last decade.

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February 2, 2012 | 0 Comments More
Texting sex ed – NYTs

Texting sex ed – NYTs

Health organizations and school districts are using Web sites and texting services to provide teens with accurate information about sex, the New York Times reports.

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December 31, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Top 10 myths about HIV vaccine research

Top 10 myths about HIV vaccine research

To mark World AIDS Day, the UW’s Dr. James Kublin, executive director of the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, would like to debunk the top 10 myths about HIV vaccine research.

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December 1, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Free film screening to mark World AIDS Day

Free film screening to mark World AIDS Day

Public Health – Seattle & King County will mark World AIDS Day with a free showing of the film “Still Around” on Thurs., Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. at the Egyptian Theatre.

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November 28, 2011 | 0 Comments More
CDC microbiologist - Photo: James Gathany

Public health, medical research face deep cuts if super committee deadlocks

Federal funding for medical research, disease prevention and a host of public health initiatives could be sharply reduced if the congressional super committee fails to agree on a deficit-reduction package, triggering automatic cuts.

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October 18, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Tomorrow, Oct. 15, is National Latino AIDS Awareness Day

Tomorrow, Oct. 15, is National Latino AIDS Awareness Day

Hay más de 750 personas en el Condado de King que son latinos y tienen VIH o SIDA, y alrededor del 40% de ellos recibieron un diagnóstico tardío.

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October 14, 2011 | 0 Comments More
HIV News: the good, the bad, and the costly

HIV News: the good, the bad, and the costly

The HIV infection rate in the U.S. remains steady but there’s been a big jump in infections among young HIV-infected African American men who have sex with men.

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August 4, 2011 | 0 Comments More
HIV virons (green) budding from a white cell -- Photo: C. Goldsmith/CDC

One pill a day can slash risk of HIV infection, UW study finds

Take one pill a day can more than halve the risk that an uninfected partner will contract HIV from an infected sexual partner, a University of Washington study has found.

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July 13, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Parents debate vaccine safety, Hutch seeks stem cell HIV cure, Harborview praised — Seattle Times

Parents debate vaccine safety, Hutch seeks stem cell HIV cure, Harborview praised — Seattle Times

Seattle Times health coverage: Parents debate vaccine safety at CDC forum in Shoreline, Hutch win $20 million grant to seek stem cell HIV cure, Harborview praised for innovative drug intervention program.

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July 13, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Cancer’s impact in developing world goes unrecognized – panel

Cancer’s impact in developing world goes unrecognized – panel

Cancer’s impact on the developing world goes largely unrecognized and unaddressed, panelists said at a Seattle World Affairs Council event held Wednesday night at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

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June 7, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Open for Questions: 30 Years of AIDS

Open for Questions: 30 Years of AIDS

To mark the 30th anniversary of the first report of the disease that became known as HIV/AIDs Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin, Director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy Jeffrey Crowley and Director of the Division of AIDS at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Dr. Carl Dieffenbach took questions about the epidemic.

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June 6, 2011 | 0 Comments More
HIV virons (green) budding from a white cell -- Photo: C. Goldsmith/CDC

View: 30 years of AIDS

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and his Chief of Staff Gregory Folkers look back on the first three decades of the HIV epidemic.

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June 3, 2011 | 0 Comments More