At last, a lift on HIV/AIDS travel ban | © 2009 Longmont Times-Call
The Longmont Times-Call - Mon Nov 9, 8:20 am ETThe United States finally has lifted a symbolically discriminatory mark on those with HIV/AIDS.
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Study: Anti-smoking vaccine effective
KENS 5 San Antonio - 2 minutes agoA shot that robs smokers of the nicotine buzz from cigarettes showed promise in midstage testing and may someday offer a radically new way to kick a dangerous habit. ORLANDO (AP) — A shot that robs smokers of the nicotine buzz from cigarettes showed promise in midstage testing and may someday offer a radically new way to kick a dangerous habit. In a study, more than twice as many people given ...
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CVS Caremark Expanding PGx Testing to Its PBM Customers
GenomeWeb News - 7 minutes agoCVS Caremark, the country’s largest pharmacy-services provider, is expanding its pharmacogenomic testing to its pharmacy benefit management customers to predict their response to treatments for cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and HIV, the companies said today.
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ISRAEL: Getting tough on "infiltrators"
IRIN - 7 minutes agoJERUSALEM, 10 November 2009 (IRIN) - Aid groups and several members of parliament (MPs) are outraged by what seems to be the toughening of Israeli policy towards asylum-seekers illegally entering the country.
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Keystone Symposia: A better world through science
Summit Daily News - 8 minutes agoKeystone Symposia: A better world through science By ALEX MILLER summit daily news SILVERTHORNE - Tucked away in a suite of offices above a thrift shop in Silverthorne, Keystone Symposia employs about 30 local people, has an annual operating budget of about $15 million and brings some 5,000 people to the county every year. They're not here to ski, necessarily (although plenty do): Keystone ...
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Will Tamiflu Shortage Drive U.S. To India's Version?
NPR - 8 minutes agoWith demand for the swine flu vaccine outpacing supply, the CDC says it's open to considering importing a generic flu drug from India. There's just one problem: The brand-name drug is still under U.S. patent. The company's chairman says he just wants to help.
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County tackles bikini barista rules
Everett Herald - 11 minutes agoA proposed law would restrict risque coffee stands to adult-entertainment zones.
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Review: Burroughs imbibes the holiday spirit
AP via Yahoo! News - 13 minutes ago"You Better Not Cry" (St. Martin's Press, 206 pages, $22), by Augusten Burroughs: Even among high-functioning alcoholics, Augusten Burroughs is an acquired taste.
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AIDS Patients Now Living Longer, But Aging Faster
NPR - 14 minutes agoBefore 1996, when new AIDS drugs were introduced, life expectancy was 18 months post-diagnosis. Now, AIDS patients regularly live for decades with the disease. But as these patients live longer, unanticipated side effects — caused by the disease itself, medications to treat it or both — introduce a new set of maladies.
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Search Consent Questioned In Ashburn Homicide
Leesburg Today - 16 minutes agoThe discovery of a body, and ultimately a grisly homicide scene, earlier this year was made illegally, the defense for the man accused of killing his girlfriend and then hiding her body under a bed for weeks claimed during a hearing in Circuit Court this week.
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A bigger fix for medical marijuana | © 2009 Longmont Times-Call
The Longmont Times-Call - 16 minutes agoWhen voters chose to allow marijuana to be prescribed as a medical treatment, many likely thought the number of users would be small.
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NBA great Abdul-Jabbar has leukemia
WPVI-TV Philadelphia - 20 minutes agoKareem Abdul-Jabbar is being treated for a rare form of leukemia.
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KMA Global Solutions Signs New Deal With Leading Packaging Company
GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance - 22 minutes agoTORONTO -- KMA Global Solutions International, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement to supply between 10 to 14 million Dual Tags per year to a multinational packaging company.
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CVS Caremark and Generation Health Form Strategic Partnership to Offer Personalized Medicine
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - 22 minutes agoCVS Caremark , the nation's largest pharmacy health care provider, and Generation Health, Inc., a genetic benefit management company , today announced a strategic partnership to expand pharmacogenomic clinical and testing services for CVS Caremark pharmacy benefit management clients to improve care for patients who either are non-responsive or have adverse reactions to their medications.
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HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Health office starts giving H1N1 shots
Hopewell Valley News - 32 minutes agoThe Hopewell Township Health Department has received 300 doses of H1N1 (swine flu) vaccine and has begun using them, township Administrator Paul Pogorzelski said Tuesday afternoon.
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Simulator tests local bus drivers
The Daily Iowan - 36 minutes agoA new Cambus driver, Bill Weets got the dreaded late-night shift. During his first semester on the job, lack of seniority forced the now UI senior to drive the Saferide route, which runs until after 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights.
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Fears of sex worker HIV explosion at World Cup
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Experts fear AIDS epidemic in Russia
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