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Adults experiencing hearing loss who regularly use hearing aids have a 24% lower risk of death than those who never wear them, according to a new study from the University of Southern California (USC) published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity suggesting that hearing aids may play a protective role in the health of those with …
At a Glance Hearing aids reduced the rate of cognitive decline in older adults at high risk of dementia by almost 50% over a three-year period. Treating hearing loss may be a safe way to lower the risk of dementia in vulnerable populations. As the world population ages, the number of people living with dementia …
New research from Oregon Health & Science University is helping explain why at least five people have become HIV-free after receiving a stem cell transplant. The study’s insights may bring scientists closer to developing what they hope will become a widespread cure for the virus that causes AIDS, which has infected about 38 million people …
Some commercial earbuds can perform as well as hearing aids. The result, presented on November 15 in the journal iScience, could help a large proportion of people with hearing loss access more affordable sound amplification devices. Hearing loss has broad health impacts, but professional hearing aids are expensive and require multiple visits to otolaryngologists and …
Cow mucus provides the basis for a synthetic prophylactic gel developed at KTH Royal Institute of Technology to protect against HIV and herpes transmission. The lubricating gel proved 70 percent effective in lab tests against HIV, and 80 percent effective against herpes. The viral prophylactic tests were conducted in a lab on several types of …
Researchers from Tel Aviv University demonstrated the success of a novel technology that may be developed into a one-time vaccine to treat people with HIV and AIDS. The team used CRISP systems, best known as a gene-editing technique, to engineer type B white blood cells that activate the immune system to produce HIV-neutralizing antibodies. The …
As the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated, new mutations in viral genetic sequences can have significant impacts on the virus’s transmissibility and the damage it causes. For many years, there have been concerns that this could arise in the HIV-1 virus, which already affects 38 million people worldwide, and has caused 33 million deaths to …
Ragon Member Xu Yu, MD, studies how HIV stores copies of its genome in human cells, resulting in life-long infection. In 2020, she identified an untreated HIV patient with no intact copies of HIV genomes in more than 1.5 billion blood cells analyzed, suggesting the virus had been cleared from the patient’s body. Her team …
People spend about a third of their life sleeping. Sleep is governed by two internal mechanisms: a circadian rhythm (biological clock) and the body’s attempt to achieve homeostasis (balance). The Use of Medications to Aid in Sleep Even though sleep is an essential part of life, many people do not receive enough sleep or do …
December 1st is World AIDS day 2020 and the NIH has released a statement as we all reflect both on the remarkable progress that has been made against HIV as well as the considerable challenges that remain. Today on World AIDS Day, we reflect both on the remarkable progress that has been made against HIV …