The test stick is swabbed along the upper and lower gum once and placed into the test tube for 20 minutes before reading the results. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the approval ...

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 ...

The dating app is partnering with a public health initiative to get more at-home tests to people in groups most affected by the virus. Jessica was a writer on the Wellness team, with a focus on health ...

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 ...

A daily preventive pill can be invaluable for people at risk for HIV. But some doctors don't know much about prescribing them. And billing headaches are common. Here's how to overcome those hurdles.

Since 2013, Dr. Leo Stamatatos has been developing a different kind of HIV vaccine intended to train a person’s immune system to mount a powerful antibody response against the virus that causes AIDS.

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 ...

On Jan. 10 last year, Dan Barouch and members of his vaccine research lab were gathered at Boston’s Museum of Science for their annual retreat. The scientists’ ears had pricked up at early word from ...

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 ...

Parents of children with thalassemia in India say they are devastated after life-saving blood transfusions left their children HIV-positive, confronting them with illness, social stigma, and ...