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28 Apr 2013
Exciting developments in the search for a cure. As somone who is old enough to remember the fear, the hysteria, the deaths, the funerals, the ominous ads with gravestones on tv, a cure would be almost impossible to believe.
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10 Feb 2012
And if you need persuading, look at what really hapens when you don't exercise. These scans are cross sections of the legs (quadriceps) of a 40 year old athlete, a 74 year old athlete, and a 74 year old who takes no exercise. As you can see, there is very little difference in muscle tissue and fat between the two athletes, while the muscle tissue of the sedentary 74 yr old has wasted dramatically. Scary.
If you're of a medical bent you can read the full study HERE.
I'm off to the gym!
(via The World's Best Ever)
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14 Dec 2010
The HIV infected Berlin patient was being treated for leukaemia, but the stem cell treatment he underwent also cured him of HIV infection. The treatment was grueling and not for the faint-hearted but has overturned the dogma that HIV infection can only be managed and not cured, and points the way to a possible cure.
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27 Oct 2010
A young husband who had just accompanied his pregnant wife to an abortion clinic confronted the protestors who had made the worst day of their lives worse.
You can read the full story behind this clip HERE.
"You're killing your unborn baby!"
That's what they yelled at me and my wife on the worst day of our lives. As we entered the women's health center on an otherwise perfect summer morning in Brookline, two women we had never met decided to pile onto the nightmare we had been living for three weeks. These "Christians" verbally accosted us - judged us - as we steeled ourselves for the horror of making the unimaginable, but necessary, decision to end our pregnancy at 16 weeks.
After extensive testing at a renowned Boston hospital three weeks earlier, we were told our baby had Sirenomelia. Otherwise known as Mermaid Syndrome, it's a rare (one in every 100,000 pregnancies) congenital deformity in which the legs are fused together. Worse than that, our baby had no bladder or kidneys. Our doctors told us there was zero chance for survival.
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10 Sep 2010
Researchers claim new therapy is superior to current treatments, which only delay the development of the disease and make AIDS more manageable.
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10 Jul 2010
US scientists have announced the discovery of three new powerful antibodies, the strongest of which neutralizes 91& of HIV strains, significantly more than any previously known antibody.
The HIV antibodies were discovered in the cells of a 60-year-old African-American gay man, known in the scientific literature as Donor 45, whose body made the antibodies naturally. The trick for scientists now is to develop a vaccine or other methods to make anyone's body produce them as well.
That effort "will require work," said Gary Nabel, director of the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who was a leader of the research. "We're going to be at this for a while" before any benefit is seen in the clinic, he said.
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Donor 45's antibodies didn't protect him from contracting HIV. That is likely because the virus had already taken hold before his body produced the antibodies. He is still alive, and when his blood was drawn, he had been living with HIV for 20 years.
While he has produced the most powerful HIV antibody yet discovered, researchers say they don't know of anything special about his genes that would make him unique. They expect that most people would be capable of producing the antibodies, if scientists could find the right way to stimulate their production.
Read the rest.
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07 Jul 2010
This poor fella in China was born with a very rare congenital "facial cleft" which gives him the appearance of wearing a mask.
Professor Wang said it's the first such case he ever met. "It's different from a cleft lip or cleft palate; it's a facial cleft. Not only his face muscles are cleft, but the inside bones are cleft." Professor Wang said judging from the current situation the boy is only suffering from the facial cleft, and his intelligence should be normal.
(via arbroath)
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23 Jun 2010
I've always felt sorry for boys who live in countries where circumcision is the norm, because as far as I'm concerned it's simple genital mutilation of children without their consent. And if you think it makes no difference to a guy, well then you're obviously circumcised and don't know what you're missing. You have my condolences.
But at least in the Western societies, girls don't have to worry about having bits of there genitals chopped off, right? Well, that depends. If you happen to be a girl who's anxious parents think your clitoris is unfashionably large, and you live near Cornell University in the US, you might just end up getting mutilated. And then, in the name of research, the doctor might end up using vibrators on your six year old clitoris.
But what's the right size for a clitoris anyway?
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