Assoumou is an infectious diseases physician-scientist at Boston Medical Center. Miller is a research data associate within Dr. Assoumou’s I-CARE (Infectious Complications Assessment and Research) lab ...

What Is the CD4:CD8 Ratio Test Used For? CD4 and CD8 are two types of white blood cells in your blood. White blood cells help your body fight infections. If you have HIV infection, your doctor may use ...

When Nicklaus Chalk started law school at the University of California, Berkeley, last fall, one of his top priorities was to take care of his health. The 24-year-old student visited a doctor to get a ...

Patients with HIV who are not monitored with the expensive laboratory tests commonly used in rich countries may survive just as long as those who do get the tests, a new study says. In a paper ...

Canadian firm BioLytical received FDA approval this week for the sale of its Insti HIV Rapid Antibody Test in the United States. The Insti kit requires pricking a finger to draw a blood sample, then ...

Adding laboratory-based HIV viral load (VL) test results — with a median turnaround time of 26 hours — to standard-of-care testing did not improve overall linkage to care compared with ...

A multinational team led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators developed a test that will help measure the persistence of HIV in people affected by viral strains found predominantly in Africa—a ...

Living with HIV in 2024 is far different than 40 years ago, when the virus was just emerging. Approximately 85% of Americans in treatment for HIV now maintain a low enough viral load that they cannot ...