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In a move that has stunned HIV experts, German scientists reported yesterday that they had engineered an enzyme that attacked the DNA of the HIV virus, and cut it out of the infected cell.在這一舉措已震驚艾滋病毒專家，德國科學家昨天報導說，他們設計的一種酶攻擊的DNA艾滋病毒，減少它的受感染的細胞。

James Dodd of Hanford, who once weighed 444 pounds, had weight-reduction surgery in Mexico after his insurance company refused to fund it.塗謹申議員多德的漢福德，誰一旦權衡四四四英鎊，體重減容手術在墨西哥後，他的保險公司拒絕基金。 He says medical care in Mexico, if researched well, is equivalent to care in the US at a fraction of the cost.他說，醫療服務在墨西哥，如果研究好，就等於照顧，在美國的一小部分的成本。

A new, non-surgical procedure called radio-frequency ablation (RFA) offers new hope for patients with inoperable kidney and liver tumors.一個新的，非手術的程序，所謂的射頻消融（ RFA ）的提供了新的希望，為患者無法操作，腎臟和肝臟腫瘤。 RFA uses heat to “vaporize”射頻消融用途熱“蒸發”

Patients infected with both hepatitis B and HIV should not take the hepatitis-fighting drug Baraclude on its own, new research confirms.感染者與B型肝炎和艾滋病毒不應採取肝炎打擊毒品baraclude對自己的，新的研究證實。

GenVec, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNVC), announced today that the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has begun a Phase I clinical trial to test a novel vaccine known as Ad35HIV-EnvA to prevent HIV-1 infection. genvec公司（ NASDAQ ： gnvc ）今天宣布，該疫苗研究中心（ vrc ）國家過敏和傳染病（ niaid ）的一部分，美國國家衛生研究院（保健院） ，已開始I期臨床試驗，以測試一種新型疫苗稱為ad35hiv - enva ，以防止HIV - 1感染。

amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, will grant almost $1.2 million for 10 new research projects aimed at increasing understanding of the social and biological factors that influence the treatment of HIV/AIDS, Dr. Rowena Johnston, amfAR’s vice president of research. amfar ，該基金會對愛滋病研究，將給予幾乎120萬美元的10個新的研究項目，旨在提高認識，社會和生物因素的影響治療艾滋病毒/艾滋病，博士rowena莊士敦， amfar的研究副總裁。

Researchers have known that some primates, such as macaques, can fight off HIV with an antiviral protein called TRIM5-alpha, whereas the human version, though only slightly different, cannot combat HIV.研究人員已經知道，一些靈長類動物，如獼猴，可以擊退艾滋病毒具有抗病毒蛋白的所謂trim5 α -干擾素，而人類的版本，雖然只是略有不同，不能防治艾滋病毒。