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U.S. experts urge approval of first AIDS prevention pill
US health advisers urged regulators to approve Truvada, made byGilead Sciences, as the first preventive pill against HIV/AIDS instead of just a treatment for infected people. The favorable vote came after clinical trials showed Truvada could lower the risk of HIV in gay men by 44 to 73 percent, and was hailed by some…
Number of diabetic Americans could triple by 2050
Officials revise estimates, predict 100 million Americans could be diabetic by 2050 Federal officials estimate that as many as 1 in 3 U.S. adults could have diabetes by the year 2050. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that 1 in 10 have diabetes now. But the number could…
There was a panel, and now there’s a post
Ha! Finally found an outlet so that I can blog a little. I’m at the Feminism 2.0 conference, which is about bringing feminism up-to-date with the netroots world. I’ll admit that I was a little bemused—Jessica Valenti could barely get a panel on the power of blogging at the NOW…
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