Everything I hear about Melissa Ethridge makes me think she’s a very unpleasant person. Why does she always have to say nasty shit about people to the tabloids? What kind of person does that?

Didn’t Melissa pull some shady shit with her last two exes?

This is why everyone should be taught to use the terms “proximal” and “distal” when talking about body parts.

Actually getting those tattoos took some ovaries!

I had a teacher in high school who caused quite a scandal by marrying a much older (and wealthy) man. Barely a year into their marriage he was diagnosed with a degenerative illness. I never once doubted she truly loved him, but there was no question that she regretted spending her 30s taking care of an old man and…

Possibly, it really depends on how well suppressed their viral load is to begin with. It also depends on the extent that immune cell precursors can get infected with HIV and basically churn out “pre-infected” T-cells.

Thanks for the explanation!

The basic research that provides the initial data on these drugs? Absolutely.

I grew up in the 80s, very much in the specter of AIDS. Our sex ed in school was all about “safe sex or AIDS will kill you.”

What they’re doing is combining current antiretroviral therapies with the histone deactetylase inhibitor Vorinostat. The problem they’re trying to overcome is the fact that HIV integrates into our genome and, unless it expresses itself, is indistinguishable from the rest of our DNA by our bodies (as much as 8% of our…

I know this sounds nitpicky, but I’m a physician that actually treats patients with HIV. It’s not that there’s no symptoms of HIV after the treatment. A lot of our patients are asymptomatic. CDC classes A1, A2 and A3 all have no symptoms of HIV, and most of our patients are in those classes. What they have is no SIGNS…

If AIDS can be iradicated in the human population, I think it’s very likely that there will be a global campaign to locate and cure all possible cases, much like other diseases were iradicated in the 20th century. Obviously, it won’t happen all at once, but it could be possible over a few generations. Let’s hope this…

She meant to say she loves fucking science. They have a whole ‘friends-with-benefits’ thing going on, but it would seem science caught some feelings. What a shame.

Being a skeptic and living with HIV and some of its weird complications, I shall not hold a party yet. Ive seen this headline before.

That’s what made Princess Diana’s handshake with an AIDS patient so important. The woman had a lot of problems, but that one act did a world of good.

I have, and the stories..... afflicted men, emaciated: stacked head-t0-toe on gurneys in hospitals corridors, left lying on blankets on the floor, in their own feces. No nurse or Dr. wanted to touch them. Some had relatives who would bring food and clean them up. god, but humans have given me so few reasons to love…

Interesting story- my friend was doing his residency at a San Francisco hospital in the earlyish 80s. He told us how they were totally flummoxed by all these people coming in with rare diseases and couldn’t figure out what was happening. He said it was an amazing time being a baby dr seeing illnesses he would probably…

For further clarification: this is the first hurdle in a human trial for effectiveness. The problem with a cure for HIV that also uses antiretrovirals is that a good antiretroviral regimen by itself will also clear the HIV virus from the bloodstream and render the quantitative testing “undetectable”. There is no…

But that’s what’s so great about science! It literally doesn’t give a shit what I think about it! It just is.

I am usually pretty against parental alienation, but if your other parent is Donald Trump, I wouldn’t hold it against Marla Maples, you know?