cure for aids found ?!?!?!?

[anarchy1114]

this is where it was found:
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/...000_5024_hv_03

Nov. 29, 2004 -- It worked in mice. It worked in monkeys. And now in humans, a therapeutic vaccine has stopped HIV in its tracks.

The vaccine is made from a patient's own dendritic cells and HIV isolated from the patient's own blood. Dendritic cells are crucial to the immune response. They grab foreign bodies in the blood and present them to other immune cells to trigger powerful immune system responses to destroy the foreign invaders.

HIV infection normally turns these important immune system responses off. But animal studies show that when dendritic cells are "loaded" with whole, killed AIDS viruses, they can trigger effective immune responses that keep infected animals from dying of AIDS.

Wei Lu, Jean-Marie Andrieu, and colleagues at the University of Paris in France and Pernambuco Federal University in Recife, Brazil, tested the vaccine on 18 Brazilian patients. All had HIV infection for at least a year. Their T-cell counts -- a crucial measure of AIDS progression -- were dropping, meaning their disease was worsening. None was taking anti-HIV medications.

After getting three under-the-skin injections of the tailor-made vaccine, the amount of HIV in the patients' blood (called the viral load) dropped by 80%. After a year, eight of the 18 patients still had a 90% drop in HIV levels. All patients' T-cell counts stopped dropping.

The findings appear in the December issue of Nature Medicine.

"The results suggest that [these] vaccines could be a promising strategy for treating people with chronic HIV infection," Andrieu and colleagues write. "The significant decrease of viral load as well as maintenance of ... [T-]cell counts observed at one year after immunization are particularly promising."

The researchers warn that their study is only proof of principle. It's still not clear which patients do best with the vaccine, although there's evidence that vaccination should be given as soon after HIV infection as possible. Only clinical trials comparing people who get the vaccine to those who don't can show whether this vaccine really is an effective AIDS therapy.

Similar approaches are being explored for the treatment of cancer and long-term viral infections such as hepatitis C.

[bighauns]

wow, that is amazing! That is awesome! dont know what else to say.

[EclipseBabe95]

it sounds like it only stops the disease, and maybe makes taking drugs for it less, but it doesn't actually cure it..... still, we're getting somewhere!!! personally, i'd rather not get it in the first place.

[thecackster]

Hell ya... I would never like to have that crap...but hey every little bit helps... and thats a huge step...now its just a matter of time

[metalhedskater]

Not to be an ass or anything, and just informing in case someone else does....this thread should be in the off topic thread. That being said...that is very interesting and hopefully one day they can cure HIV completely so we can sleep around more often!!

[EclipseBabe95]

personally, i dont mind the off-topic-ness here, because i never leave this specific forum.... but im in the minority i guess

[RiceRocket18]

anyone here do regular tests??.... just curious.

[2of9]

Damn, thats some good shiet. Too bad they still havent found the Formula to Cold Fusion...

[RiceRocket18]

you know what that means!!???..

that means you can go out now and look for the trashiest girl and don't have to worry about it. LOL

[pro3racer]

Am i the only guy here that thought about this alittle???? All you guys say to go out a get laid with any girl now(which there is no problem with, hell, i probably will this weekend), but even though they found a cure for aids, doesn't mean STD's are gone too. Yes i know i sound like a little sex ed teacher, but i just know way to much stuff, and never get to use it, so there.