aids study

The National Institutes of Health and the D.C. Health Department are preparing this month to launch a study in the District with an ambitious goal: to determine whether aggressive treatment of every adult with HIV could eliminate AIDS.

For the first time ever, an AIDS vaccine has protected subjects of a clinical trial from infection. Now directors of a new Seattle-based study are hoping for a repeat performance -- or maybe even a cure.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center are among an elite group of cancer scientists to share a $2 million grant to find biomarkers for lung cancer that develops in people who have never smoked.

At first Karen Pancheau figured her son Tyler's nasty rash came from friction on the mats at judo class.

But when the rash began dissolving layers of flesh, his father took the teenager for tests, which revealed he had HIV.

Karen, too, tested positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, which sh...

At first Karen Pancheau figured her son Tyler's nasty rash came from friction on the mats at judo class.

But when the rash began dissolving layers of flesh, his father took the teenager for tests, which revealed he had HIV.

Karen, too, tested positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, which sh...