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News Releases and Statements For 2008

December 2008

Dec. 12, 2008	Bulletin: NIAID Invites Input on Research Initiative to Eradicate HIV
Dec. 4, 2008	NIAID Media Availability: Well-Armed Immune Cells Help Long-Term Non-Progressors Contain HIV

November 2008

Nov. 28, 2008	World AIDS Day Offers a Reflection on the Past, Hopeful Look to the Future
Nov. 27, 2008	Experimental TB Drug Explodes Bacteria from the Inside Out
Nov. 21, 2008	Study of Ancient and Modern Plagues Finds Common Features
Nov. 19, 2008	Landmark Study Defines Benefits of Early HIV Testing and Treatment for Infected Infants
Nov. 3, 2008	NIAID Media Availability: Seizures Following Parasitic Infection Associated with Brain Swelling
Nov. 2, 2008	Persistent Bacterial Infection Exploits Killing Machinery of Immune Cells

October 2008

Oct. 28, 2008	Bulletin: DSMB Finds Ritonavir-boosted Lopinavir Superior to Nevirapine in HIV-positive Women Who Previously Took Single-dose Nevirapine
Oct. 27, 2008	NIAID Media Availability: Study Suggests HIV-infected Patients Should Start HAART Sooner
Oct. 22, 2008	NIAID Media Availability: NIAID Scientists to Speak on Range of Infectious Disease Topics at Major Scientific Meeting
Oct. 21, 2008	NIAID Media Availability: Markers of Inflammation and Blood-clotting Tied to Hazards of Intermittent HIV Treatment
Oct. 10, 2008	NIH Scientists Discover Crucial Control in Long-Lasting Immunity
Oct. 9, 2008	NIAID Awards Contracts to Search for Protein Markers of Disease
Oct. 9, 2008	New Systems Biology Awards Enable Detailed Study of Microbes
Oct. 8, 2008	Scientists Decode Genome of Parasite that Causes Relapsing Malaria
Oct. 8, 2008	National Latino AIDS Awareness Day—October 15, 2008
Oct. 7, 2008	NIAID Announces 25 New Awards to Develop Radiation Countermeasures
Oct. 2, 2008	DNA of Good Bacteria Drives Intestinal Response to Infection
Oct. 1, 2008	NIAID Media Availability: New Findings Indicate HIV/AIDS Pandemic Began around 1900, Earlier than Previously Thought

September 2008

Sept. 19, 2008	NIAID Media Availability: Type 1 Diabetes May Result from Good Genes Behaving Badly
Sept. 19, 2008	Monitoring Exhaled Nitric Oxide Does Not Help Manage Asthma
Sept. 4, 2008	Study Reveals Link between Apobec3 Gene and Neutralizing Antibody Response to Retrovirus

August 2008

Aug. 29, 2008	NIAID Media Availability: NIAID to Fund Broad Range of Basic HIV Vaccine Discovery Research
Aug. 27, 2008	NIAID Media Availability: NIAID Describes Challenges, Prospects for an HIV Vaccine
Aug. 19, 2008	Bacterial Pneumonia Caused Most Deaths in 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Aug. 14, 2008	Researchers Find Leishmaniasis Parasites Evade Death by Exploiting the Immune Response to Sand Fly Bites
Aug. 13, 2008	NIH Scientists Find a Novel Mechanism that Controls the Development of Autoimmunity
Aug. 5, 2008	Adult Male Circumcision Reduces Risk of HIV Acquisition for at Least 3.5 Years

July 2008

July 24, 2008	NIAID Media Availability: NIAID Announces Revised Priorities for HIV Vaccine Research
July 17, 2008	Statement: NIAID Will Not Move Forward with the PAVE 100 HIV Vaccine Trial
July 14, 2008	NIAID Media Availability: Exhausted B Cells Hamper Immune Response to HIV
July 11, 2008	Statement on the U.S. Transplant Games
July 10, 2008	Bulletin: Anti-TB Drug Fails to Benefit HIV-Exposed Infants who were Unexposed to TB at Study Enrollment

June 2008

June 30, 2008	NIAID Announces Grants to Stimulate Food Allergy Research
June 25, 2008	NIAID Creates HIV Vaccine Discovery Branch to Promote Synergy between Basic HIV Researchers and Vaccine Designers
June 23, 2008	NIAID Media Availability: Study Further Defines Potential Role of Fish-Based Fatty Acids in Resolving, Preventing Asthma
June 11, 2008	Media Availability: Dr. Anthony S. Fauci to Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
June 5, 2008	NIAID Media Availability: Dr. Anthony S. Fauci to Address the United Nations on HIV/AIDS on June 10

May 2008

May 27, 2008	Bulletin: Monitoring Board Recommends Stopping Experimental Treatment Regimen in International Study of Patients New to HIV Treatment
May 23, 2008	NIAID AIDS Vaccine Research Subcommittee to Meet May 30 to Discuss PAVE 100 Study
May 21, 2008	NIAID Media Availability: Scientists Discover How Common Vaccine Booster Works
May 20, 2008	NIAID to Advance B-Cell Approach to HIV Vaccines
May 18, 2008	Statement of Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., on HIV Vaccine Awareness Day
May 14, 2008	Dr. Anthony Fauci Reflects on 25 Years of HIV
May 12, 2008	National Asian and Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, May 19
May 12, 2008	Raising Awareness of the Personal and Research Challenges of Food Allergy
May 6, 2008	Statement of Elizabeth G. Nabel, M.D., NHLBI, and Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID, on World Asthma Day
May 1, 2008	Studies Test New Approaches to Islet Transplantation

April 2008

April 30, 2008	Researchers Find Quick Way to Make Human Monoclonal Antibodies against Flu
April 28, 2008	Research Findings Open New Front in Fight against AIDS Virus
April 25, 2008	NIAID Media Availability: NIAID Seeks Research Ideas for Funding Initiatives in Vaccine Discovery and HIV Prevention
April 23, 2008	World Malaria Day: Global Research Needed to Address a Disease without Borders
April 22, 2008	NIAID Describes Research Priorities to Fight Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
April 16, 2008	NIAID Media Availability: Study Provides New Understanding of Forces behind Seasonal Flu Virus Evolution
April 15, 2008	NIAID Media Availability: Air Pollution Affects Respiratory Health in Children with Asthma

March 2008

March 20, 2008	NIAID Media Availability: NIAID to Convene HIV Vaccine Summit
March 20, 2008	World TB Day—March 24, 2008
March 20, 2008	National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
March 16, 2008	Scientists Identify New Leads for Treating Parasitic Worm Disease
March 14, 2008	People with Job’s Syndrome Lack Specific Immune Cells
March 12, 2008	Researchers Find Cause of Severe Allergic Reaction to Cancer Drug
March 10, 2008	Confronting the Challenge of Antimicrobial Resistance
March 10, 2008	Statement of Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., on National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

February 2008

Feb. 28, 2008	Bulletin: NIAID Modifies HIV Antiretroviral Treatment Study
Feb. 25, 2008	Bulletin: An Update Concerning the HVTN 503/Phambili HIV Vaccine Study
Feb. 15, 2008	Scientists Find Antibody that Can Potently Neutralize Two Viruses
Feb. 15, 2008	Bulletin: NIAID AIDS Vaccine Research Subcommittee Meeting Postponed
Feb. 14, 2008	Novel Approach Strips Staph of Virulence
Feb. 13, 2008	Patient with Rare Disorder Responds to Cancer Drug
Feb. 13, 2008	NIAID Media Availability: HIV Persists in the Gut Despite Long-Term HIV Therapy--Second Study Finds that B-Cell Abnormalities Also Persist
Feb. 10, 2008	NIAID Scientists Identify New Cellular Receptor for HIV
Feb. 6, 2008	Bulletin: Extended Nevirapine Regimens Reduce HIV Transmission and Death in Breastfed Infants of HIV-infected Mothers
Feb. 6, 2008	Anti-Herpes Drug Does Not Reduce Risk of HIV Infection in People with Genital Herpes Virus, Study Finds
Feb. 5, 2008	National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness and Information Day, February 7, 2008
Feb. 4, 2008	Researchers Discover New Battleground for Viruses and Immune Cells
Feb. 1, 2008	Dr. Carl Dieffenbach Appointed Director of the NIAID Division of AIDS

January 2008

Jan. 29, 2008	Five Named to NIAID Advisory Council
Jan. 22, 2008	Early Promising Results in Malaria Vaccine Trial in Mali
Jan. 21, 2008	Studies Highlight MRSA Evolution and Resilience
Jan. 8, 2008	NIAID Experts See Dengue as Potential Threat to U.S. Public Health

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