Residents of this city are contracting the virus that causes AIDS at three times the national rate, according to data released by the New York City health department on Wednesday.

The new incidence estimate shows that 72 of every 100,000 New Yorkers were newly infected in 2006, compared to 23 per 100,000 nationally. Nearly 4,800 New Yorkers contracted HIV in 2006 -- three times the national rate, the report said

Chewing gum after colon surgery can help shorten your hospital stay, a new British study suggests.

The latest work published in Archives of Surgery says that chewing three sticks of sugarless gum a day helps improve recovery of intestinal function after all or part of the colon has been surgically removed may speed up the return of normal bowel function

Indian women who are physically and sexually abused by their husbands have more risk of HIV infection than other wives, according to a new study.

This first large-scale national study to examine the relationship between intimate partner violence against wives and clinically verified HIV infection appears in the Aug. 13 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an AIDS drug made by Gilead to treat patients with hepatitis B. The drug Viread has been available in the U.S. as a treatment for HIV infection in adults since 2001.

The FDA is joining regulators in Europe, Turkey, Australia and New Zealand by allowing the drug in U.S. Generically known as tenofovir, the drug is taken in the form of a pill once daily. It works by blocking HBV DNA polymerase, the enzyme that is necessary for the virus to replicate in liver cells

The life-threatening disease of AIDS might be preventable and curable by 2031, the head of U.S. infectious disease research said Thursday.

Aggressive treatment of HIV infection shortly after infection has made it possible to live symptom-free without medicines for HIV patients