{"id":31043,"date":"2016-10-14T18:49:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T01:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/a-new-treatment-appears-to-have-erased-hiv-from-a-patients-blood"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:09:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:09:20","slug":"a-new-treatment-appears-to-have-erased-hiv-from-a-patients-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/a-new-treatment-appears-to-have-erased-hiv-from-a-patients-blood","title":{"rendered":"A new treatment appears to have erased HIV from a patient\u2019s blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-treatment-appears-to-have-erased-hiv-from-a-patients-blood.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first of 50 patients to complete a trial for a new HIV treatment in the UK is showing no signs of the virus in his blood.<\/p>\n<p>The initial signs are very promising, but it\u2019s too soon to say it\u2019s a cure just yet: the HIV may return, doctors warn, and the presence of anti-HIV drugs in the man\u2019s body mean it\u2019s difficult to tell whether traces of the virus are actually gone for good.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the team behind the trial \u2013 run by five British universities and the UK\u2019s National Health Service \u2013 says we could be on the brink of defeating HIV (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HIV\">human immunodeficiency virus<\/a>) for real.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-new-hiv-treatment-could-have-cured-a-patient-in-britain?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Branded+Content&utm_campaign=ScienceDump\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-new-hiv-treatment-could-have-c...cienceDump<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first of 50 patients to complete a trial for a new HIV treatment in the UK is showing no signs of the virus in his blood. The initial signs are very promising, but it\u2019s too soon to say it\u2019s a cure just yet: the HIV may return, doctors warn, and the presence of anti-HIV [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31043"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66002,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31043\/revisions\/66002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}