dylanjosh Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 For the first time, a man has been declared officially cured of HIV. The remedy may nearly have killed him, but it opens a door—just a crack—to hope that we may someday kill off the scourge for good. Strangely enough, the diagnosis that most concerned Timothy Ray Brown in 2007 was acute myeloid leukemia. HIV has been increasingly thought of as a manageable disease, though certainly a terribly burdensome one. What brought the 42-year old Brown under the care of Germany's Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin hospital was the more immediate threat his cancer posed. The treatment Brown underwent was aggressive: chemotherapy that destroyed the majority of his immune cells. Total body irradiation. Finally, a risky stem-cell transplant that nearly a third of patients don't survive—but that appears to have completely cured Brown of HIV. Doctors were savvy when they chose a stem cell donor for Brown. The man whose bone marrow they used has a particular genetic mutation, present in an incredibly small percentage of people, that makes him almost invulnerable to HIV. With Brown's own defenses decimated by treatments, the healthy, HIV-resistant donor cells repopulated his immune system. The initial indications that the virus had abated were promising. But only just now, having taken no antiretroviral drugs since the transplant, and following extensive testing shows no signs whatsoever of HIV, have his doctors given the official word: He's cured. What does this mean for the future of treatment? It's not as though every HIV patient can or would want to go through the tremendous suffering that was prelude to Brown's recovery, or be able to afford the procedure if they could or did. But for the first time, we know that HIV can be cured, not just managed. It opens new avenues of research—gene therapy, stem cell treatments—that may otherwise have been thought dead ends. http://gizmodo.com/5713498/man-officially-cured-of-hiv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solitaire Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Yeah read this on Gizomodo and a number of sites. But this is based on a single experience. No proof really that this will work with another person though. The patient might just end up suffering terrible pain but not being cured. In his case, this is very good news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cash Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Read this as one of my friends status, Brilliant Anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bird Bird Bird Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Wow that's so awesome ! Kudos to the researchers n the docs ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killzone123 Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 really good news Wow that's so awesome ! Kudos to the researchers n the docs ! dekh aur kuch seekh...ek yeh sab docs hai,aur ek tu...jab dekho games and shopping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playstation Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 really good news dekh aur kuch seekh...ek yeh sab docs hai,aur ek tu...jab dekho games and shopping btw someone make this thread invisible to Jiggy...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulovski Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 In separate news, sales of protectives plummet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killzone123 Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 btw someone make this thread invisible to Jiggy...... you dont want him to know that he can be cured jk jigg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playstation Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 you dont want him to know that he can be cured jk jigg I was thinking abt the animals..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sufyan Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Good job.I am so scared of accidental needle pricks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solitaire Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 btw someone make this thread invisible to Jiggy...... Where is he though? haven't seen much of him on the forums lately.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playstation Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Where is he though? haven't seen much of him on the forums lately.... +1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bird Bird Bird Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 dekh aur kuch seekh...ek yeh sab docs hai,aur ek tu...jab dekho games and shopping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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