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        <description>A collection of news and information related to Retroviruses published by Tribune Company sources.</description>
        
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			<title><![CDATA[Federal panel says everyone 15 to 65 should have HIV test]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-sci-hiv-screening-20130430,0,5924581.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-04-29 16:09:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Citing recent evidence that HIV infections are best managed when treated early, an influential panel of medical experts has finalized its recommendation that all people ages 15 to 65 be screened for the virus that causes AIDS. 

The recommendation from...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jerome Horwitz dies at 93; developed potent anti-AIDS drug AZT]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-me-adv-jerome-horwitz-20120927,0,7583812.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-09-27 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Jerome Horwitz, a medical researcher at Wayne State University in Detroit, had spent more than a decade developing a drug he hoped would work against cancer. But the compound failed to help the lab mice he tested it on, so in 1970 he "dumped it on the...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Virus discovery called breakthrough in fight against chronic fatigue syndrome]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-sci-fatigue9-2009oct09,0,1668151.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2009-10-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In what may prove to be the first major breakthrough in the fight against the mysterious and controversial disorder known as chronic fatigue syndrome, researchers reported Thursday that they had found traces of a virus in the vast majority of affected...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mississippi baby born with HIV is first child cured of disease]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/bal-infant-hiv-cure,0,3561926.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-03-03 19:01:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A Mississippi infant born with HIV has become the first child cured of the deadly virus, leaving hope that the disease can be eliminated in the youngest patients, scientists from Johns Hopkins Children&rsquo;s Center and other institutions said Sunday....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Nevada drops charges against researcher Mikovits]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/ct-met-mikovits-charges-main-20120615,0,3258509.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-06-15 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Nevada prosecutors have dismissed criminal charges against Judy Mikovits, the researcher whose findings offered hope to thousands of chronic fatigue syndrome patients before they were retracted and her life became mired in legal trouble.

The criminal...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Thousands descend on Seattle for world AIDS conference]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/kcpq-thousands-descend-on-seattle-for-world-aids-conference-20120307,0,663019.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-03-07 11:37:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The 19th annual Conference on Retro­viruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) is in Seattle this week &ndash; showcasing the latest research into the treatment and cure of infections like HIV and AIDS.

More than 4,200 researchers, providers and...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Black women in city infected with HIV at higher rate than national average]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/bs-hs-aids-women-20120308,0,7641017.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-03-08 16:04:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[African-American women in Baltimore and five other U.S. cities are becoming infected with HIV at a rate five times the national average for black women, and closer to the rates of some African countries, according to a new study.

Researchers at the Johns...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Science journal retracts controversial research paper]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/ct-met-science-journal-retraction-1223-20111223,0,6456972.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2011-12-23 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A scientific paper embraced by many chronic fatigue syndrome patients as a ray of hope has been retracted after a tumultuous year that included allegations of data manipulation and felony charges involving stolen property against the study's lead...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[High-profile 2009 chronic fatigue syndrome study in dispute]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/ct-nw-chronic-fatigue-xmrv-20111004,0,6200696.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2011-10-04 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The journal that published a high-profile paper linking chronic fatigue syndrome to a retrovirus is now investigating allegations that a figure in that report was manipulated.

The appearance in Science of the 2009 paper caused an immediate sensation...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[2010 Trib Nation live chat on XMRV and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/chi-xmrv-and-crs-livechat-with-trine-tsouderos-20111122,0,4464525.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2011-11-22 08:07:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[REPOSTED FROM 2010: The subject presents a uniquely 21st century scenario, in which a single scientific paper drops and researchers and the disease community react in very different ways.

Scientists see the paper as an invitation to question &ndash;...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Past Trib Nation coverage of XMRV and CRS]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/chi-past-trib-nation-coverage-of-xmrv-and-crs-20111122,0,1613047.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2011-11-22 08:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Our March 17, 2011, story about XMRV, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and how they likely aren't linked in the way many CFS sufferers had hoped, offers a cautionary tale about putting too much stake in a single scientific paper.

Every week, many medical...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Research casts doubt on theory of cause of chronic fatigue]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/ct-met-chronic-fatigue-xmrv-20110317,0,7135472.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2011-03-17 17:21:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A high-profile scientific paper that gave enormous hope to patients diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, and even prompted some to begin taking potent anti-HIV drugs, has been largely discredited by subsequent research.

Evidence is mounting that a...]]></description>
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