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- Xrayser: Scare tactics will make people sick.(rules for drugs)
- How HIV “Exhausts” Killer T Cells
- Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Opinion: Points
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- Even Microbes Favor Their Own Kin
Xrayser: Scare tactics will make people sick.(rules for drugs)
Free with registration - Chemist & Druggist - AccessMyLibrary.com - Aug 26, 2006
As the Government tightens its `security’ measures in an effort to justify the gradual erosion of our civil liberties, medicines on planes have come under the spotlight (C+D, August 19, p7) because somebody is running out of ideas. These latest measure are, quite simply, pointless and bizarre. As liquid medicines do not always come in tamper proof bottles, I will certainly not be.
How HIV “Exhausts” Killer T Cells
Medical News Today - Aug 26, 2006
However, he cautioned that these kinds of drugs could cause serious side effects, including autoimmune reactions that trigger the immune system to attack the body. Walker added that the researchers’ findings will also likely have application in understanding other chronic viral diseases. The findings by Walker and his colleagues were published in an advance online publication on August 20, 2006, by the journal Nature. Walker is also at the Partners AIDS Research Center and Harvard Medical School. Other co-authors were from the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa, Oxford University, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute of Harvard Medical School, Emory University School of Medicine, and The Wistar Institute. “It’s long been known that people with HIV infection have a lot of HIV-specific immune cells that one would think would be actively combating the virus,” said Walker. “But a major puzzle has been that even in late-stage illness, when one can still measure great numbers of these immune cells, they don’t seem to be controlling the virus at all… The findings by Walker and his colleagues were published in an advance online publication on August 20, 2006, by the journal Nature. Walker is also at the Partners AIDS Research Center and Harvard Medical School. Other co-authors were from the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa, Oxford University, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute of Harvard Medical School, Emory University School of Medicine, and The Wistar Institute. “It’s long been known that people with HIV infection have a lot of HIV-specific immune cells that one would think would be actively combating the virus,” said Walker. “But a major puzzle has been that even in late-stage illness, when one can still measure great numbers of these immune cells, they don’t seem to be controlling the virus at all. ” An important clue to why killer T cells stop functioning after infection came from earlier studies in mice, which were published by co-author Rafi Ahmed of Emory. Ahmed found that chronic viral infection actively inhibits T cells by switching on the cells’ inhibitory PD-1 pathway.
Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Opinion: Points
Dallas Morning News - Dallas Morning News (subscription) - Aug 26, 2006
Wilkin and his colleagues at the Peninsula Medical School in Devon, England, found that every child has his or her own very consistent daily level of activity. We don’t know what determines this intrinsic level of activity. But engineering the environment to make available or even to require more activity apparently will have little impact on children whose nature is to be inactive. Having read these new studies, I’m more depressed than ever. Before we write off obesity as a hopeless problem, though, one more thought: As worried as I am about many of my heavy patients, I often do see heartening improvement, especially in later adolescence. The critical question is why some young people thin down while others do not. I don’t have an answer, but I do have an impression… Calling heavy children "obese" is likely to do the opposite of what we want, by making them feel worse about themselves. Sydney Spiesel is a pediatrician in Woodbridge, Conn. , and associate clinical professor of pediatrics at Yale University’s School of Medicine. A longer version of this essay appeared in Slate.
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Broomfield Enterprise - Broomfield Enterprise (subscription) - Aug 26, 2006
His closest humans must also manage his many off-fieldappearances. “In these days of animal rights, it’s hard to justify having anyanimal kept for rah-rah value, and we’re using Mike to educate peopleabout conservation issues,” Baker said. None of Mike’s caretakers have gone into exotic animal medicine. Baker says nurturing him makes them into more observant and responsiblevets for far less dangerous animals. Tip: “There is never a time when there is nothing between usand the tiger. David BakerFALCONS, AIR FORCE
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