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Health and Medicine Major Advances 2011 - What significant advances can we expect in 2011? Here are some predictions, provided by experts in these fields who gave MyHealthNewsDaily the lowdown on what might promote our health next year. Results of a promising HIV vaccine will be announced. An American man made international headlines this month when German doctors announced he had been cured of the virus that causes AIDS. The HIV-positive man had suffered from acute myeloid leukemia - a deadly blood cancer - so in 2007 the doctors performed a bone marrow transplant to treat the leukemia. They were lucky enough to find a bone marrow donor with a rare mutation, called Delta 32 that provides natural resistance to the human immunodeficiency virus. Health and Medicine Major Advances 2011 Three years after the transplant, the man continued to show no signs of HIV. But for all the media attention to this case, another scientific advance is likely to help more people battle HIV and ...