Via Error, French and Brazilian researchers have produced a treatment that lowers HIV levels by 80%. This might not be a total AIDS cure, but it does promise make the disease much less fatal.

Also, Slashdot
reports that a paralyzed woman is walking again after being treated with cord-blood stem cells
. The Slashdot comments devolve into a pro/anti-Bush flamewar, but absent all that, the future of formerly permanent paralyzing injuries becoming easily treatable is one step closer.