Submission + - Hemopurifier filters out HIV from patient
rdoherty writes: After over 10 years in development, the Hemopurifier is now the first therapeutic device to drastically reduce viral load in an HIV patient. Aethlon has just announced the results for their "first-in-man" study of the Hemopurifier to treat HIV. Their Hemopurifier is a tube the size of a pen that connects to a patient's arm to filter their blood. It was shown to remove other viruses (dengue, hepatitis C, west nile virus, smallpox, 1918 spanish flu & H5N1 avian flu) and it might become a "first line of defense" against bioterrorism. In the HIV study, the patient's viral load decreased 92% (102,759 iu/ml to 7,960 iu/ml) after receiving twelve Hemopurifier treatments thrice weekly for one month. What is also surprising is that the patient was NOT taking any antiviral drugs.. So, if this device was combined with medicine, it'll probably be even more effective especially when treating drug-resistant HIV.
