"CHICAGO - A middle-aged patient with leukemia has become the first woman and 3rd person to be cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant from a donor resistant to the virus that causes AIDS, researchers reported earlier today.

The case presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunisitic Infections in Denver, is the first involving umbilical cord blood, a novel approach that could make the treatment more widely available, researchers say.

The woman has been free of the virus for 14 months without a need for her regular antiretroviral treatments. Good news."