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If you have been charged with an HIV-related crime or civil action – or you represent someone in such action, contact OMSJ immediately. (more…)
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In what is being hailed as a major victory for workers in the biotech and nanotech fields, a former scientist with pharmaceutical firm Pfizer has been awarded $1.37 million for being fired after raising the alarm over researchers being infected with a genetically engineered “AIDS-like” virus. Becky McClain, a molecular biologist from Deep River, Connecticut, filed a (more…)
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In a major shift of H.I.V. treatment policy, San Francisco public health doctors have begun to advise patients to start taking antiviral medicines as soon as they are found to be infected, rather than waiting — sometimes years — for signs that their immune systems have started to fail. The new, controversial city guidelines, to be announced next week by the Department of Public Health, may be the most forceful anywhere in their endorsement of early treatment against H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS. (more…)
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Is NASA pouring taxpayer money down black holes? How pseudo-science has infected the the biggest projects in astrophysics. (more…)
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BUFFALO, NY – For the first time since his arrest, Western New York Olympic equestrian Darren Chiacchia is speaking about his case. Back in January, Chiacchia was arrested and charged with a felony: not informing his partner at the time that he was H.I.V. positive. “This for sure has been one of the challenging periods of my life,” said Chiacchia during an exclusive interview with 2 On Your Side’s Scott Brown on Monday. (more…)
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In 1998, Edmond McNack, a Missouri Sheriff’s Deputy, was bitten by a prisoner he was transporting. Both he and the prisoner were given HIV tests; both tested negative. It was determined that for safety’s sake, Edmond should take a “prophylactic” course of AIDS drugs (AZT plus 3TC). He did so, and lost 40 pounds in eight weeks. A nurse intervened and told him that he had to quit the drugs to save his life. Listen to his testimony on the Robert Scott Bell show. (more…)
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If you have been charged with an HIV-related crime or civil action – or you represent someone in such action, contact OMSJ immediately. (more…)
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FRANKLIN, Ind. — A man who police said had unprotected sex with numerous women and didn’t inform them that he has HIV pleaded not guilty Thursday to 15 charges. In February, Tony Perkins, 47, of Greenwood, pleaded guilty to two counts of failing to warn sexual partners that he has HIV. (more…)
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(March 24) — For almost two years, molecular biologist Bénédicte Trouiller doused the drinking water of scores of lab mice with nano-titanium dioxide, the most common nanomaterial used in consumer products today. She knew that earlier studies conducted in test tubes and petri dishes had shown the (more…)
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Based upon this recent report published by the Journal of the American Physicians and Surgeons, it is now clear that HIV tests do not detect HIV and why prosecutors reduced their plea offer for Eneydi Torres from 15 years in state prison to five days on unsupervised probation. (more…)
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Ethereal public service announcement from the UK.
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How do you tell that you are in a Potemkin village, where all hundred and forty-one houses are mere fronts, with the happy peasants out front really just actors driven in for the occasion? If you were one of the Czar’s courtiers and he was driving you through in his carriage it would seem quite rude to ask to get down and look inside one of the houses, wouldn’t it? But if (more…)
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