(SRHS) is a grant program established by the Minnesota Legislature in 1978 as Family Planning Special Projects (FPSP). In 2023, the state legislature changed the name of the program to SRHS. SRHS funds are appropriated biannually by the Minnesota Legislature to fund…
Norah Terrault, MD, MPH, on why few diagnosed patients reach HCV cure and how primary care test-and-treat can close the gap. AJMC: Your talk asks what the US should focus on to eliminate hepatitis C. Where do you see the biggest…
First responders in Saskatchewan who worry they’ve been infected with viruses on the job will be able to get answers in hours, instead of days, under a new bill. The province has proposed legislation which, if passed, will speed up…
WEST LAFAYETTE — Researchers at Purdue University and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute have uncovered an unexpected role for a human immune protein that could help scientists better understand how the body responds to infections, including HIV. The study,…
When the news came out last month that a New York woman was likely cured of HIV/AIDS by the same cord blood transplant she had received to save her from leukemia, Dr. Filippo Milano’s telephone at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson…
At IDWeek 2026, Jimmy Chang, PhD, discussed investigational HIV antibodies TMB-365 and TMB-380, explaining their complementary mechanisms, early study findings, and ongoing evaluation as a long-acting maintenance regimen. Targeting the Cell HIV Uses to Replicate Chang explained that TMB-365 is designed…
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that newborns receive their first dose of the Hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth. ALBANY — An estimated 500 newborns received doses of the Hepatitis B vaccine that had been improperly stored at Albany Medical…
The researchers confirmed that the antiviral effect was linked to PIKfyve rather than an unrelated action of apilimod. Silencing PIKfyve using small interfering RNA reduced HEV infection by approximately 40%, while two additional PIKfyve inhibitors, YM201636 and APY0201, also suppressed infection. The effect…
In England, 3 in 4 people with chronic liver disease first receive a diagnosis during an emergency hospital admission. In Nottinghamshire, GPs are trying to catch it earlier, with a scanner that turns up in libraries, leisure centres, and a roaming van.
The FDA will newly exclude from donating blood some straight people who engage in anal sex, despite 30 years of evidence that including them has not posed a risk of HIV getting into the blood supply. ________________________________________ I would be more concerned…
HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections: treatment, prevention, testing and rising cases.
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