AIDS drug shows potential as weapon against cancer
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A drug used to treat people infected with the AIDS virus has shown promise as a possible future weapon against cancer, U.S. researchers said on Friday.
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A new AIDS vaccine that is used to treat the disease is able to suppress the virus for at least one year, say researchers of a small trial.
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Cancer cells often have a way of  outsmarting new targeted drug therapies, but U.S. researchers  said on Thursday a combination of targeted drugs could shut  down a tumor&#39;s backup plan, resulting in much more effective  treatments.
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A cheap drug has been discovered which could cut Aids-related deaths in African children by almost half. Tests on the new antibiotic drug in Zambia were so successful that the trial was halted early to make the drug available more quickly.
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German scientists have found a new way to prevent the HIV virus from replicating, offering hope in the face of the virus's increasing resistance to existing drugs.
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LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK  - More than 25 years into the AIDS epidemic, many drugs are used to treat HIV, but an alarming number of patients are becoming resistant to therapy, driving research into new ways to combat the virus.
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Two experimental drugs could offer hope to leukemia patients who no longer benefit from Gleevec, the groundbreaking cancer pill, research presented Sunday in San Diego at the meeting of the American Society of Hematology shows.
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BEIJING (dpa) - Chinese and Thai scientists have developed a herbal anti-AIDS drug that proved effective in 89 per cent of cases during clinical trials, Chinese state media said on Sunday.
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Anti-retroviral drugs have been so effective at treating HIV that researchers are now exploring whether they can perform double duty
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MONDAY, Feb. 14 (HealthDay News) -- A harmless version of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is being used to hunt down malignant melanoma cancer cells in mice, researchers say.
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A new drug may give older women with early stages of breast cancer a better chance of beating the disease and stopping it returning and spreading.
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The new drug could become the first effective treatment for liver cancer, one of the deadliest forms of cancer.
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Doctors are hopeful about a new drug to treat skin cancer by causing tumor cells to self-destruct by overloading them with oxygen
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A gene that may help block the AIDS virus from getting into cells seems to protect some people from the deadly and incurable infection, researchers said on Thursday.
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The AIDS virus has to hijack human proteins to do its damage, but scientists until now have known only a few dozen of its targets. On Thursday, Harvard researchers unveiled a surprisingly longer list, an important first step in the hunt for new drugs.
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Researchers have hit on what may be an inexpensive way to prevent death from infections in children with HIV until anti-retroviral drugs become affordable in the developing world.
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Scientists say they may be able to make cancer drugs target tumours by using ultra-violet light to activate them.