Drug companies were rushing to the market with the most effective drugs yet against the dreaded AIDS virus ... not at the virus itself, but at a portal through which HIV enters white blood ...

but this NOVA Hot Science isn't about the fight against the AIDS virus. Fighting Back instead takes a look at the battlefield where the fight takes place, putting you into the world of the immune ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Thirty-five years ago, a young boy from Kokomo became a national symbol in the fight against ...

HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus ... for AIDS – acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. HIV gradually weakens the body’s immune system by infecting and destroying white blood cells called ...

My new book examines the life, death, and legacies of Ryan White, the Indiana teenager with ... should not result in the transmission of the AIDS virus.” That same day, possibly before he ...

Ryan White was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS 40 years ago after contracting the virus from a blood-clotting treatment used to manage his hemophilia. At the time, little was understood about the disease ...