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HOW TO BE HEALTHY

• Above all, don't smoke. Cigarette smoke is a toxic cocktail of around 70 cancer-causing chemicals and hundreds of other poisons. Smoking is the single biggest cause of cancer in the world. In the UK, smoking accounts for one in four cancer deaths and kills five times more people than road accidents, overdoses, murder, suicide and HIV all put together.
• Eat at roughly the same times each day. This might be two, three or more times but a routine encourages a reasonable weight.
• Watch your portions. Don't heap food on your plate (except for vegetables) and think twice before having second helpings.
• Try to have five portions of fruit and vegatables a day. A portion is about 80g of fruit or vegetables. This is roughly equal to an apple, orange, banana, or similarly-sized fruit or two serving spoons of cooked vegetables such as broccoli or carrots.
• Eat foods with reduced fat. Choose reduced fat versions of foods such as dairy products, spreads and salad dressings. Cut fat off meat.
• Eat foods with reduced salt. Too much salt can increase your blood pressure and your risk of heart disease and stroke.
• Eat healthier snacks. If you're hungry between meals, choose a healthy option such as fresh fruit or low calorie yogurts instead of chocolate or crisps.
• Look at food labels. Choose food with less far, sugar and salt content.
• Think about how you eat. Eat your meals at the table and it will help you focus on the amount of food you eat. Eat slowly because it takes time for your body to register how much food you've eaten and how full you are. Don’t eat while walking, but wait until you get there and take time to concentrate on what you are eating.
• Think about what you drink. Water is good (but eight glasses a day is not necessary - for discussion ). Semi-skimmed milk is good too. Many soft drinks (including fizzy and sweetened soft drinks) contain a lot of sugar. Alcohol is high in calories.
• Don't bother with vitamin supplements. If you enjoy normal health and are not sensitive to healthy foods, you probably don't need them and there is no real evidence that they do any good. Don't believe me? - then check out the evidence: .
• Walk every day. The aim should be to do around 10,000 steps which equates to around 60-90 minutes of walking. Using a pedometer on a belt is a good way to monitor this. On the way to or from work, shops, or meetings, leave the car or public transport a bit short of your destination. In the office, use stairs rather than the lift (or elevator, for my American readers).
• Don't sit around too long. Break up your sitting time by walking around at regular intervals. At home, do a chore. At work, visit a colleague.
• Limit exposure to the sun. Between 11 am and 3 pm, it's better to be in the shade. When in the sun, wear sensible clothing and use appropriate sun factor lotion. Never burn.
• Get enough sleep. The amount varies by individual and age, but most people need seven or eight hours a night. It's important to go to bed at a regular time and get up at a regular time. There is some evidence that people who take a short nap during the day lower the risk of heart disease.

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Healthy Hair: Your 50s and Beyond

Deep-condition if you’ve gone gray. Gray or silver hair, although beautiful, may be drier and more prone to breakage and sun damage than pigmented hair. Protect it by getting a deep-conditioning treatment (ask for one that includes sunscreen) at a salon once a month or by using a moisturizing productto keep hair hydrated and more pliable.



Eat orange foods. In your 50s, antioxidants can help your hair cope with hormonal changes. And a good way to get them is by eating orange foods—like sweet potatoes and carrots—says Ranella Hirsch, MD, a Boston-based dermatologist and president of the American Society of Cosmetic Dermatology and Aesthetic Surgery. These foods also help protect your body from the sun and seal moisture into hair, which maintains the natural oils in your scalp. While your locks may not look and feel exactly like they did in your 20s, “you can move things back in a favorable direction,” Dr. Hirsch says.



Get your thyroid checked. Hypothyroidism, which affects 1 in 50 women and is most common in women over 50, occurs when your body does not produce enough thyroid hormone. Symptoms of this disorder include obesity and heart disease, but it can also result in a thinner head of hair, says Heather Wickless, MD, MPH, professor of dermatology at Northwestern University and a dermatologist specializing in hair disorders at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. If you notice that your hair is thinning, ask your doctor for a thyroid-function test, an accurate and easy way to figure out if you’re in danger. Hypothyroidism is easily treated with synthetic thyroid supplements prescribed by your doctor.



Remove unwanted hair. During menopause, estrogen levels plummet, so it’s likely that a few extra hairs will show up on your chin, upper lip, underarms, and abdomen. But you don’t have to live with the new growth. Laser hair removal is about 70 percent effective in zapping all the hair in a given area, though you’ll need touch-ups every few months. Make sure you have it performed by a licensed aesthetician or physician, preferably at a dermatologist’s office. Or, ask your doctor about hormone supplementation, which can ease menopausal symptoms like excess hair growth. The cheapest, easiest fix? Pick up some bleaching cream, and use it as needed.

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Eat healthy

Eating is one the most important events in everyone’s life. We enjoy eating - it’s part of who we are and part of our culture; in fact, eating is the hottest universal topic of all times. We depend on eating: the foods we eat are the sole source of our energy and nutrition. We know so much about eating: we are born with the desire to eat and grown up with rich traditions of eating. But we also know so little about eating - about how the foods we eat everyday affect our health. We are more confused than ever about the link between diet and health: margarine is healthier than butter or not; a little alcohol will keep [ برای مشاهده لینک ، با نام کاربری خود وارد شوید یا ثبت نام کنید ] at bay but cause breast cancer; dietary vitamin antioxidants can prevent lung cancer or can not. Eating is a paradox and a mystery that our ancestors tried and modern scientists are trying to solve.

Based on experiences and traditions, our ancestors have used foods and plant materials to treat various kinds of illness. Manuscripts discovered from a tomb (dated 168 B.C.) in China described prescriptions for 52 ailments with herbs, grains, legumes, vegetables, animal parts, and minerals. Ancient Sumerians recorded the use of 250 medicinal plants on tablets five thousand years ago. Today, plant and food remedies are still the major medicinal source for 80% of the world’s population.
The pharmacological roles of everyday foods have long been neglected by modern medicine due to lack of proven scientific validity. The main focus of modern medicine has been on pharmaceuticals. With the invention of modern chemotherapy by Paul Erhlich in the early twentieth century and sulfa drugs and antibiotics in the 1930’s and 1940’s, it seemed as if chemical medicines would take care of all our ills. However, while there continues to be great strides made in the understanding and use of pharmaceuticals, there is also widespread dissatisfaction with both them and the system of medicine that utilizes them. This dissatisfaction is centered around the feeling that they are too disease-oriented, and perhaps too limited by their precision to cope effectively with the subtle factors and interrelationships that compromise human health and disease. The precise and pure nature of modern biomedical pharmaceuticals also tends to increase their side effects. In addition, with the victory over many common infectious diseases, more people are concerned with chronic degenerative processes and with prevention of disease. The increasing concerns have started a new movement in medical research. More and more mainstream scientists are reaching back to the truth of ancient food folk medicines and dietary practices for clues to remedies and antidotes to our modern diseases.
Research on pharmacological effects of foods is fast-paced and the results are exciting. The mystery of what foods can do for or to us has started to unveil. In order to effectively use foods for our health benefits, the following issues need to be considered:

• Keep up with the most recent scientific findings and make use of them for our health benefits
• Try to use variety of whole foods as much as possible instead of isolated dietary supplements for your health problems - they are safer, cheaper, and usually more effective since they can provide multiple and balanced disease fighting capabilities
• Choice of foods is important: since healing power of a food is depending on the content of pharmacologically active constituents that differ among foods, and certain foods may need to be avoided due to their disease encouraging activities
• How do you prepare and eat your foods can affect their pharmacological effects
• Concerns about multiple health conditions: foods that benefit one health condition may be harmful to others
• Overall nutritional values of foods

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Cash bribes 'help smokers quit'

Bribing smokers with cash incentives helps them stop, US research suggests.



Previous studies found small cash incentives prompted few people to quit


Smokers are three times more likely to kick the habit for at least six months when they are paid up to $750 (£520), a new study has found.
Nearly 900 General Electric workers took part in the test across 85 US sites. The results were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.



GE will launch a similar scheme in 2010 for all US employees, believing it will be cost-effective in the long term.
It aims to save some of the estimated $50m spent annually on extra costs for smoking employees.
The company believes it will get back what it spends over three to five years, through reduced illness and increased productivity.



Financial incentives
Previous studies had indicated that smaller financial incentives had little effect on quitting smoking, said Kevin Volpp of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, who led the research project.

"Incentive programs work if they're well designed and adequately funded," Mr Volpp told Reuters news agency. "If you do a low-budget incentive program, it may have little effect."
"Our study shows that if you're able to get people smoke-free and keep them smoke-free for six months or more, there's a fighting chance they can stay smoke-free on their own," he said.
In the GE study, half the participants were given the financial incentive, while the rest were merely encouraged to join quit-smoking programmes.

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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer Randolph E. Schmid, Ap Science Writer –

Reuters – A couple dances and kisses inside a heart shaped made from candles during a flash mob ahead of Valentine's …

CHICAGO – "Chemistry look what you've done to me," Donna Summer crooned in Science of Love, and so, it seems, she was right. Just in time for Valentine's Day, a panel of scientists examined the mystery of what happens when hearts throb and lips lock. Kissing, it turns out, unleashes chemicals that ease stress hormones in both s.e.x.es and encourage bonding in men, though not so much in women

Chemicals in the saliva may be a way to assess a mate, Wendy Hill, dean of the faculty and a professor of neuroscience at Lafayette College, told a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Friday

In an experiment, Hill explained, pairs of heterosexual college students who kissed for 15 minutes while listening to music experienced significant changes in their levels of the chemicals oxytocin, which affects pair bonding, and cortisol, which is associated with stress. Their blood and saliva levels of the chemicals were compared before and after the kiss

Both men and women had a decline in cortisol after smooching, an indication their stress levels declined

For men, oxytocin levels increased, indicating more interest in bonding, while oxytocin levels went down in women. "This was a surprise," Hill said

In a test group that merely held hands, chemical changes were similar, but much less pronounced, she said.

The experiment was conducted in a student health center, Hill noted. She plans a repeat "in a more romantic setting."

Hill spoke at the session on the Science of Kissing, along with Helen Fisher of Rutgers University and Donald Lateiner of Ohio Wesleyan University.

Fisher noted that more than 90 percent of human societies practice kissing, which she believes has three components — the --- drive, romantic love and attachment.

The s.e.x drive pushes individuals to assess a variety of partners, then romantic love causes them to focus on an individual, she said. Attachment then allows them to tolerate this person long enough to raise a child.

Men tend to think of kissing as a prelude to copulation, Fisher said. She noted that men prefer "sloppy" kisses, in which chemicals including testosterone can be passed on to the women in saliva. Testosterone increases the s.e.x drive in both males and females.

"When you kiss an enormous part of your brain becomes active," she added. Romantic love can last a long time, "if you kiss the right person."

Lateiner, a classical scholar, observed that kissing appears infrequently in Greek and Roman art, but was widely practiced, despite the spread of skin disease at that time by facial kissing. And there was a potential for social faux pas by kissing the wrong person at the wrong time

.Overall, the science of kissing — philematology — is under-researcherd, Hill concluded

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Plaster cast 'better for sprains'



People with a sprained ankle recover faster if they are given a plaster cast, British researchers say.




People with sprains are usually told to keep mobile

A study of 600 patients found that a 10-day below-knee cast is more effective than standard treatment with a tubular bandage.
The findings, published in The Lancet, are at odds with general medical opinion that the best thing for a sprained ankle is to keep it moving.
Up to 1.5m people a year in the UK go to A&E with a sprained ankle.
The injury accounts for 3-5% of all UK emergency department attendances and varies from minor stretching of the ligament to a complete tear.



It is commonly treated with ice, elevation, tubular compression bandage and advice to exercise.
But the researchers found that a tubular bandage was consistently the worst treatment.
In patients with severe ankle sprain attending eight emergency departments in the UK, a 10-day below-knee cast was associated with a speedier recovery in terms of ankle function, pain, symptoms and activity three months later.
The second best treatment was an Aircast brace which limits movement of the ankle.
The Bledsoe boot - another type of brace which is designed to restrict movement of the ankle but allow users to walk - was no more effective than a tubular bandage and neither can be recommended as a treatment for these injuries, the researchers said.
By nine months there was no difference between the groups.
Immobile
A plaster cast costs £16.46, the researchers said, compared with £39.23 for an Aircast brace, £215 for the Bledsoe and £1.44 for a tubular compression bandage, the researchers said.
Professor Sallie Lamb, an expert in rehabilitation at the University of Warwick, said the finding that immobilisation is the best strategy is "contrary to popular clinical opinion".
"Tubular compression bandage, which is currently the most commonly used of all the supports investigated, was, consistently, the worst treatment.
She said early recovery is very important to patients, so although there is little difference at nine months, the speed with which people are able to get back to normal activities is an important finding.
"I think plaster should be given as standard management."
John Heyworth, president of the College of Emergency Medicine, said the study was "practise-changing, high quality research".
"What we do with these common problems, is we look for the best evidence and up until this paper, the evidence suggested that early mobility provided a better outcome and this provides some good evidence that immobilisation can provide greater benefits."
Dr Martin Shalley, A&E consultant at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, said they tried to avoid immobilising the ankle because of the risk of deep vein thrombosis.
"That has to be balanced and we can discuss the pros and cons with the patient and work out the best treatment programme for them."


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Yoga poses for height improvement

For the purpose of physical and mental enhancement, the practice of yoga has been one of the oldest methods of exercise. In recent times, yoga has received renewed fame due to its excellent results in treating common ailments along with improving general health. The below mentioned exercises are some specific yogasanas that can help you to improve your posture which in turn will help you to look taller.

Sukhasana - In this asana, you will need to sit in a cross legged manner. Touch your thighs with the help of your feet, in the cross leg fashion with the ankles and the hands resting on the feet. Breathe in deeply and maintain a count of five and then breathe out slowly. Continue to breathe in and out in equal counts.

You must also try the Tree pose also known as vrikshasana and the foot hand pose also known as padahasthasana for helping you to improve your height and enhance your overall posture. One of the most beneficial forms of yoga for increasing height is the Surya Namaskar. The Surya Namaskar is an extremely versatile asana and all the positions and movements done in this asana encompasses a number of yoga postures that contributes to the well being of the body on the whole. Apart from imparting a positive feeling about oneself with the help of this yoga, Surya Namaskar is a complete body workout exercising and stretching every part of the body and sinews thus increasing flexibility and mobility.

However you must understand one thing, that height cannot be increased nor gained after a particular age. Almost all men and women stop growing in height after they reach puberty. However, all the above asanas are mentioned so that you can learn to correct and improve your standing and sitting postures that can give an impression of being taller.

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A Carrot a Day
The Root of Good Health
by Rachel Levin

Contrary to popular belief, carrots cannot give you super-human vision. An urban legend about the orange-colored taproot got started in World War II, when the British success at gunning down Nazi bombers was attributed to the pilots’ consumption of carrots. Actually, their covert weapon was radar, not the favored vegetable of Bugs Bunny, but the carrot rumor served its purpose in protecting national security secrets. Nevertheless, the story touched off a carrot craze amongst the public. Though carrots won’t give you Herculean vision, they do have considerable benefits for the eyes along with a “bunch” of other health advantages.

Carrots’ secret weapon is pro-vitamin A beta carotene, and they’ve got quite a stockpile. Just one cup of carrots provides over 680% of the U.S. recommended daily allowance of this antioxidant, the richest source of any vegetable. In the liver, beta carotene is converted to vitamin A, used by the retina to form rhodopsin, a purple pigment necessary for night vision. Vitamin A also provides protection against macular degeneration and senile cataracts, which can lead to blindness in old age. These vision benefits prove that the carrot’s eyesight merits aren’t just an artifact of World War II lore.

Diets rich in beta carotene are also thought to reduce the risk of certain cancers, cardiovascular diseases and smoking-related conditions. In a study of elderly individuals, those who ate at least one serving of carrots or squash per day reduced their rate of heart attack by 60%. A Harvard study showed that those who eat five carrots a week are less likely to suffer a stroke than those who eat one per month. High carotenoid intake has been associated with decreases in the incidences of breast, bladder, cervical, prostate and colon cancer, among others. Smoking cigarettes produces a vitamin A deficiency; consuming beta carotene-rich foods like carrots can help ward off associated conditions like emphysema.

Though beta carotene gets all the attention, carrots’ diverse benefits cannot be attributed just to this one compound. Scientists have tried to isolate carrots’ power in a pill; however, synthetic vitamin A supplements don’t produce the same effects as consuming carrots themselves and can actually be toxic. Several compounds in the carrot work may work together to promote health. The phytonutrient falcrinol, for example, is a natural fungicide that plays a part in protecting against colon cancer. Alpha carotene may also be involved in countering nutrient deficiencies in smokers.

First cultivated in Asian and Middle Eastern countries, the earliest carrots were not orange at all. They were typically purple or yellow. It wasn’t until the 1800s in Europe that the sweet orange carrot was developed and spread the world over during colonial times. Now scientists are returning to the rainbow hues of the common carrot’s ancestors to capture additional nutritional benefits. Researchers at the Agricultural Research Service are breeding yellow, dark orange, bright red and purple carrots in an effort to get the nation eating more carrots and a wider array of antioxidants. Yellow carrots contain xanthophylls, which also boost eye health; red carrots, like tomatoes, contain the cancer-fighter lycopene; and purple carrots have similar anthocyanins as eggplant.

Beyond these multihued antioxidants, carrots of any color pack a fiber punch, which promotes healthy digestion and may reduce cholesterol. The USDA reports that eating two carrots per day can lower cholesterol by 20% due to soluble fiber called calcium pectate. The combination of fiber and carotenoids also guards against insulin resistance and high blood sugar, which can be precursors to diabetes. Cooking, in fact, increases the benefits of orange carrots, since heat frees the beta carotene from the fiber.

Whether shredded into sweet cakes and puddings or sautéed in silky butter, carrots can certainly inspire passion. Just don’t get too overzealous with your carrots: excessive consumption of carotene-rich foods can leave your palms or other parts of your skin with an orange cast, a condition called cartoderma. This results because beta carotene is stored in the skin until it’s needed by the liver. Two carrots a day is ample for most people’s dietary needs. With all of the health incentives, what more of a carrot do you need?

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12 Natural Tips to Prevent a Cold

There are no known cures for colds and flu, so cold and flu prevention should be your goal. A proactive approach to warding off colds and flu is apt to make your whole life healthier. The most effective way for preventing the flu is to get the flu shot. It may not be natural, but it works better than anything else. But there are other strategies you can employ as well. WebMD went to Charles B. Inlander, president of The People's Medical Society, for suggestions you may want to try:



#1 Wash Your Hands


Most cold and flu viruses are spread by direct contact. Someone who has the flu sneezes onto their hand, and then touches the telephone, the keyboard, a kitchen glass. The germs can live for hours -- in some cases weeks -- only to be picked up by the next person who touches the same object. So wash your hands often. If no sink is available, rub your hands together very hard for a minute or so. That also helps break up most of the cold germs. Or rub an alcohol-based hand sanitizer onto your hands.

#2 Don't Cover Your Sneezes and Coughs With Your Hands

Because germs and viruses cling to your bare hands, muffling coughs and sneezes with your hands results in passing along your germs to others. When you feel a sneeze or cough coming, use a tissue, then throw it away immediately. If you don't have a tissue, turn your head away from people near you and cough into the air.

#3 Don't Touch Your Face

Cold and flu viruses enter your body through the eyes, nose, or mouth. Touching their faces is the major way children catch colds, and a key way they pass colds on to their parents.

#4 Drink Plenty of Fluids

Water flushes your system, washing out the poisons as it rehydrates you. A typical, healthy adult needs eight 8-ounce glasses of fluids each day. How can you tell if you're getting enough liquid? If the color of your urine runs close to clear, you're getting enough. If it's deep yellow, you need more fluids.

#5 Take a Sauna

Researchers aren't clear about the exact role saunas play in prevention, but one 1989 German study found that people who steamed twice a week got half as many colds as those who didn't. One theory: When you take a sauna you inhale air hotter than 80 degrees, a temperature too hot for cold and flu viruses to survive.

#6 Get Fresh Air

A regular dose of fresh air is important, especially in cold weather when central heating dries you out and makes your body more vulnerable to cold and flu viruses. Also, during cold weather more people stay indoors, which means more germs are circulating in crowded, dry rooms.

#7 Do Aerobic Exercise Regularly

Aerobic exercise speeds up the heart to pump larger quantities of blood; makes you breathe faster to help transfer oxygen from your lungs to your blood; and makes you sweat once your body heats up. These exercises help increase the body's natural virus-killing cells.

#8 Eat Foods Containing Phytochemicals

"Phyto" means plants, and the natural chemicals in plants give the vitamins in food a supercharged boost. So put away the vitamin pill, and eat dark green, red, and yellow vegetables and fruits.

#9 Eat Yogurt

Some studies have shown that eating a daily cup of low-fat yogurt can reduce your susceptibility to colds by 25 percent. Researchers think the beneficial bacteria in yogurt may stimulate production of immune system substances that fight disease.

#10 Don't Smoke

Statistics show that heavy smokers get more severe colds and more frequent ones.

Even being around smoke profoundly zaps the immune system. Smoke dries out your nasal passages and paralyzes cilia. These are the delicate hairs that line the mucous membranes in your nose and lungs, and with their wavy movements, sweep cold and flu viruses out of the nasal passages. Experts contend that one cigarette can paralyze cilia for as long as 30 to 40 minutes.

#11 Cut Alcohol Consumption

Heavy alcohol use suppresses the immune system in a variety of ways. Heavier drinkers are more prone to initial infections as well as secondary complications. Alcohol also dehydrates the body -- it actually takes more fluids from your system than it puts in.

#12 Relax

If you can teach yourself to relax, you can activate your immune system on demand. There's evidence that when you put your relaxation skills into action, your interleukins -- leaders in the immune system response against cold and flu viruses -- increase in the bloodstream. Train yourself to picture an image you find pleasant or calming. Do this 30 minutes a day for several months. Keep in mind, relaxation is a learnable skill, but it is not doing nothing. People who try to relax, but are in fact bored, show no changes in blood chemicals.

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One of the first attempts to use gene therapy to treat HIV has produced promising results in clinical trials.







The therapy aims to stop HIV re-producing

When the therapy was tested on 74 patients, it was shown to be safe and appeared to reduce the effect of the virus on the immune system.
In theory, one treatment should be enough to replace the need for a lifetime of antiretroviral therapy.
The study, by the University of California, Los Angeles, appears in the journal Nature Medicine.

Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has greatly improved the prognosis for people infected with HIV. However, it must be taken on a daily basis, there is a risk of adverse reactions and the virus - which has an astonishing capacity to evolve rapidly - is starting to develop resistance to the drugs.
Therefore, new ways to combat the virus are badly needed.


Stem cells
The latest therapy involves giving patients blood stem cells modified to carry a molecule called OZ1, which is designed to stop HIV reproducing itself by targeting two key proteins.
The patients in the trial either received the therapy, or a dummy treatment.
After 48 weeks the researchers found there was no statistically significant difference in the amount of HIV circulating in the blood of the two groups of patients.
However, after 100 weeks the patients who received the gene therapy had higher levels of CD4+ cells - the key cells of the immune system which are specifically destroyed by HIV.
Lead researcher, Professor Ronald Mitsuyasu, said the research was the first to come through tightly controlled trials in which patients did not know whether they were getting the therapy or the placebo.
He said: "Gene therapy has the potential of needing only a one-time or infrequent administration of product and would allow the patients to control their own HIV internally without the need for continuous drug therapy.
"While this treatment is far from being perfected, it is not yet as effective or as complete as current antiretroviral therapy in controlling HIV, the study did show proof of concept that inserting and administering a single anti-HIV gene in the patients' own blood stem cells and giving it back to them could reduce viral replication to some degree when anti-HIV medications are stopped."
However, Professor Mitsuyasu said long-term follow up was needed to ensure the therapy was safe.


'Exciting' area
Jo Robinson, of the HIV charity Terrence Higgins Trust, said: "Gene therapy is an exciting area which aims to create a one off treatment for HIV, avoiding the need for people to take daily medication.
"However, it's a very complex area and early days in research terms so we're a long way from something like this being on the market.
"This particular trial proved safe and has shown some promising results which definitely warrant further investigation.
"Some people find their HIV becomes resistant to current treatments over time so it's essential that we invest in researching potential new approaches like this."
Keith Alcorn, of the HIV information service NAM, said: "The viral load responses in this study were very modest, and for any other sort of product would not justify going forward.
"However, the researchers have shown enough of an effect for us to be hopeful that a gene therapy approach to HIV treatment might eventually deliver effective treatments for the disease."

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