---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MEDIA COVERAGE Boston patients July 2013 – January 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary PART 1: July 2013 Wire Reuters……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 5 Asian News International (ANI)…………..…………………………………………………………….. 6 Associated Press (AP)………………………………………………………………………………………... 7 Associated Press (AP)………………………………………………………………………………………... 8 Associated Press (AP)………………………………………………………………………………………... 9 Agence France Press (AFP)………………………………………………………………………………… 10 Bloomberg………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 12 United Press International (UPI)……………………………………………………………………….. 14 EFE……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 15 Broadcasting NBC-2……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 17 BBC…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 19 ABC RADIO………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 22 ABC RADIO………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 23 NBC…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 24 ForexTV…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 27 CBN…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 28 CBS……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 29 Al Jazeera………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 31 CNN………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 32 NBC…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 35 Newspapers, magazines and blogs The New York Times…………………………………………………………………………………………. 37 The Wall Street Journal…………………………………………………………………………………….. 40 Financial Times…………………………………………………………………………………………………. 41 The Guardian…………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 43 The Times…………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 45 The Independent………………………………………………………………………………………………. 46 The Boston Globe……………………………………………………………………………………………… 49 Le Figaro………………………………………..…………………………………………………………………. 51 Forbes…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….… 52 Metro……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 54 Science Now……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 55 New Scientist……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 57 New Scientist……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 59 The Washington Post………………………………………………………………………………………… 61 El Mundo………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 63 El País……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 64 MedPage Today………………………………………………………………………………………………… 66 Huffington Post…………………………………………………………………………………………………. 68 The Week………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 70 2 The Scientist……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 71 Europaikos Notos……………………………………………………………………………………………… 72 The Lancet………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 73 Nature………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 74 HIVandHEPATITIS.com………………………………………………………………………………………. 76 HIVandHEPATITIS.com………………………………………………………………………………………. 79 AIDSMAP…………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 80 Physicians Briefing…………………………………………………………………………………………….. 83 PART 2 : December 2013 / January 2014 Wire Reuters……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 85 Bloomberg….…………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 87 United Press International (UPI)……….………………………………………………………………. 88 Europa Press…………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 90 Agenzia Italia (AGI)……………………………………………………………………………………………. 91 Broadcasting NPR…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 92 NBC…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 94 CBS……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 96 CNN…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 98 Newspapers, magazines and blogs The New York Times…………………………………………………………………………………………. 101 The Boston Globe……………………………………………………………………………………………… 103 El País……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 106 El País……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 107 El Día.……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 109 Libération………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 111 La Repubblica…….……………………………………………………………………………………………… 112 Daily News……...……………………………..…………………………………………………………………. 113 HIVandHEPATITIS.com………………………………………………………………………………………. 115 3 Part 1: July 2013 4 Wire Stem-cell therapy wipes out HIV in two patients By Ben Hirschler. LONDON Wed Jul 3, 2013 7:53am EDT (Reuters) - Two men with HIV have been off AIDS drugs for several months after receiving stem-cell transplants for cancer that appear to have cleared the virus from their bodies, researchers reported on Wednesday. Both patients, who were treated in Boston and had been on long-term drug therapy to control their HIV, received stem-cell transplants after developing lymphoma, a type of blood cancer. Since the transplants, doctors have been unable to find any evidence of HIV infection, Timothy Henrich of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston told an International AIDS Society conference in Kuala Lumpur. While it is too early to say for sure that the virus has disappeared from their bodies altogether, one patient has now been off antiretroviral drug treatment for 15 weeks and the other for seven weeks. Last July Henrich first reported that the two men had undetectable levels of HIV in their blood after their stem- cell treatment, but at that time they were still taking medicines to suppress HIV. Using stem-cell therapy is not seen as a viable option for widespread use, since it is extremely expensive, but the latest cases could open new avenues for fighting the disease, which infects about 34 million people worldwide. The latest cases resemble that of Timothy Ray Brown, known as "the Berlin patient", who became the first person to be cured of HIV after receiving a bone marrow transplant for leukaemia in 2007. There are, however, important differences. While Brown's doctor used stem cells from a donor with a rare genetic mutation, known as CCR5 delta 32, which renders people virtually resistant to HIV, the two Boston patients received cells without this mutation. "Dr. Henrich is charting new territory in HIV eradication research," Kevin Robert Frost, chief executive officer of the Foundation for AIDS Research, which funded the study, said in a statement. Scientific advances since HIV was first discovered more than 30 years ago mean the virus is no longer a death sentence and the latest antiretroviral AIDS drugs can control the virus for decades. But many people still do not get therapy early enough, prompting the World Health Organization to call for faster roll-out of medicines after patients test positive. Indian generics companies are leading suppliers of HIV drugs to Africa and to many other poor countries. Major Western HIV drugmakers include Gilead Sciences, Johnson & Johnson and ViiV Healthcare, which is majority-owned by GlaxoSmithKline. Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/03/us-hiv-stemcells-idUSBRE9620IL20130703 5 7/3/13 - Hopes soar for HIV cure after 2 US men cured of virus [Asian News International] Melbourne, July 3 (ANI): Two American men are believed to have overcome HIV, boosting hopes as they join a handful of people who are said to have been cured of the virus, to find a wider cure. Doctors from the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston announced on Wednesday night that two previously HIV-positive patients no longer had detectable virus levels in their blood or tissue after having bone marrow stem-cell transplants to treat cancer between two and four years ago, the Age reported. Remarkably, the two men - a young man and another in middle age - have also remained clear of the virus after stopping anti-retroviral therapy eight and 15 weeks ago. When most HIV-positive people stop taking treatment, the virus becomes active again within four to eight weeks. The Boston pair look set to join a Mississippi toddler believed to have been cured of HIV by intense treatment 30 hours after birth and Timothy Ray Brown, the "Berlin patient" famously cured of HIV six years ago after having a similar bone marrow transplant to treat cancer in Germany. However, there is a key difference between the Berlin and Boston patients that could advance research towards a cure for HIV. Brown received a transplant from a donor with an unusual gene mutation that resists HIV whereas the Boston patients received transplants from donors with no known resistance to the disease. Timothy Henrich and Daniel Kuritzkes, the doctors managing the Boston patients, told an HIV conference in Malaysia that this suggested the process of stem-cell transplantation was responsible for their suspected remission. In particular, they believe a common complication of transplantation, graft-versus-host disease, could be at play because it involves newly transplanted donor cells attacking the transplant recipient's body. The doctors said although it was too early to say whether their patients had been cured permanently, repeated tests of large volumes of cells, plasma and tissue had found no sign of the virus. (ANI) Source: http://www.pharmacychoice.com/News/article.cfm?Article_ID=1073362 6 Células madre parecen ayudar a pacientes con sida Por EILEEN NG - 07/03/2013 KUALA LUMPUR, Malasia - Dos pacientes en Estados Unidos infectados con el virus de inmunodeficiencia humana (VIH) y que fueron sometidos a trasplante de médula ósea debido al cáncer dejaron de tomar medicinas antirretrovirales y siguen sin mostrar indicios perceptibles del virus, dijeron los investigadores el miércoles. Los investigadores de la Universidad de Harvard insistieron que es demasiado pronto para afirmar que los hombres han sido curados, pero agregaron que es un indicio esperanzador que el virus no haya reaparecido en su sangre meses después de haber concluido su tratamiento con fármacos. La