Blood Products May Have Infected Hemophiliacs With HIV, Report ...
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Research results released Wednesday by health authorities did not ruled out the possibility that 11 hemophiliacs may have been infected with HIV through domestic blood coagulation products during 1990-93.
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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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The World Health Organization was sending an expert to Croatia on Thursday to check whether thousands of patients could have been infected by syphilis through blood transfusions three years ago.
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Blood transfusions can save lives. But they can also spread diseases. Researchers believe this is how at least two people in Britain became infected with the human version of mad cow disease. They say the cases appears to confirm that ...
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At least 278 blood donors in India&#39;s north-eastern state of Tripura were found to be HIV-positive, fuelling fears that blood supplied from blood banks in the region could be infected with the killer virus that causes AIDS.
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World News &gt; Durban, Dec 6 : A major row in South Africa over profiling of blood donors according to race intensified today with the disclosure that blood donated by President Thabo Mbeki three years ago had been destroyed instead of being used.
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AN HIV drug was recalled last night because of contamination caused by human error, its makers said.  Tests on batches of Viracept were found to contain a level of a cancer-causing chemical.
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An ingredient in human semen may actually help the HIV virus infect cells, German researchers said on Thursday.
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More than 550 patients who underwent shoulder investigations over seven years have been offered blood tests to establish whether they were accidentally infected with diseases such as HIV or hepatitis.
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Measuring the amount of AIDS virus   circulating in the blood of HIV-positive patients is not a good   indicator of the health of their immune systems, researchers   said on Tuesday.
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A haemophiliac given contaminated blood over 20 years ago gives evidence at an independent inquiry.
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SATURDAY, Sept. 1 (HealthDay News) -- A drug used as part of a regimen to treat HIV also appears to kill cancer cells, researchers from the U.S. National Cancer Institute report.
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Exposure to alcohol makes mouth cells more susceptible to HIV infection during oral sex, research has shown.
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NEW YORK  - Less that 0.1 percent of blood  and tissue donors in the United States had positive screening  tests for HIV between 2000 and 2002, according to a new study.  And the rate of hepatitis C virus was just over 1 percent.
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Thousands of people are to be told they may have been exposed to vCJD through contaminated blood products.
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LONDON: The United Kingdom has exported to 'at least 11 countries' blood products at risk of contamination with the prion responsible for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow ...
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China has admitted that illegal blood sales, one of the main causes of its spiralling AIDS problem, are still rampant despite being outlawed in 1996, state media reported Thursday.