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Doctors have convincing evidence baby born with HIV may be cured
Doctors now have convincing evidence that they put HIV into remission, hopefully for good, in a Mississippi baby born with the AIDS virus – a medical first that is prompting a new look at how hard and fast such cases should be treated.
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Advocacy groups: CDC must revise cancer screening policy for transgender women
WASHINGTON — Two leading LGBT advocacy groups on Friday called on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to “investigate and change any discriminatory guidelines” that deny federally subsidized breast cancer screenings for transgender women.
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Fertility clinics helping more same-sex couples have kids
BOSTON — Fertility clinics have put a new twist on how to make babies: A “two-mom” approach that lets female same-sex couples share the biological role. One woman’s eggs are mixed in a lab dish with donor sperm, then implanted in the other woman, who carries the pregnancy.
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Meet Jack: Scientist, inventor, kayaking enthusiast, ‘Glee’ fan, likes boys, … and is only 16
The age of 13 is a time when most American teenagers worry about their freshman year of high school, begin experiencing their first intimate attractions to others, and keep busy playing video games, texting friends, and surfing the internet. But in suburban Baltimore, three years ago — at age 13 — one young man decided there had to be a better way to detect cancer.
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Va. medical center to operate clinic exclusive to LGBT community
RICHMOND Va. — The Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center will open a behavioral health medication management clinic next week, the first in the region established exclusive to the LGBT community.
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Two stem cell patients stop HIV drugs, show no detectable sign of virus
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Two HIV-positive patients in the United States who underwent bone marrow transplants for cancer have stopped anti-retroviral therapy and still show no detectable sign of the HIV virus, researchers said Wednesday.
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Parents sue S.C. hospital over child’s gender assignment surgery
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A couple filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the state of South Carolina for what they say was an unnecessary sexual assignment surgery performed on a toddler they later adopted.
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Danish scientists say they’re close to a breakthrough in finding a cure for HIV
AARHUS, Denmark — Scientists and researchers at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark say they believe there will be a breakthrough in finding a cure for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) “within months.”
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FDA rejects two HIV drugs from Gilead Sciences
FOSTER CITY, Calif. — Gilead Sciences Inc. said Monday that the Food and Drug Administration rejected two marketing applications for HIV treatments, citing quality control problems at the company’s manufacturing facilities.
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Latest HIV vaccine doesn’t work; U.S. government halts study
WASHINGTON — The latest bad news in the hunt for an AIDS vaccine: The government halted a large U.S. study on Thursday, saying the experimental shots aren’t preventing HIV infection.