HIV is not transmitted under fully suppressive therapy: The Swiss Statement – eight years later

HIV is not transmitted under fully suppressive therapy: The Swiss Statement--eight years later.

Eight years ago, on January 30th 2008, the Swiss Federal Commission for AIDS-related Issues (“the Commission”, now the Swiss Federal Commission for Sexual Health) published a statement which – in the field of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) – rapidly received the name “The Swiss statement” [1]. The statement addressed the infectiousness of an HIV-positive person once the virus was stably sup...

Unresectable Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: Eight Years Later

Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, and is considered uniformly fatal when patients present with unresectable, advanced-stage disease at the time of diagnosis. Long-term survival of patients with advanced-stage pancreatic adenocarcinoma remains rare, despite advances in adjuvant chemoradiation protocols. A 73-year-old male presented to our emerge...

the hiv 25 YEARS LATER big ChALLeNgeS

eDitORS’ iNtRODUCtiON In 1983 and 1984 scientists established that HIV (the human immunodeficiency virus) causes AIDS, which had recently begun cropping up in gay men in California and New York. The discovery quickly led to predictions that a preventive vaccine would soon be on tap. Similarly, in 1996, after powerful drug combinations began forcing HIV down to undetectable levels in the blood, ...

Rejuvenating immunity: “anti-aging drug today” eight years later

The 2014 year ended with celebration: Everolimus, a rapamycin analog, was shown to improve immunity in old humans, heralding "a turning point" in research and new era in human quest for immortality. Yet, this turning point was predicted a decade ago. But what will cause human death, when aging will be abolished?

Open problems in data warehousing: eight years later