Cure For HIV
February 16, 2008 at 5:50 pm | In diseases, drugs, news | 1 CommentTags: AIDS, choice, cure, death, diseases, durg, HIV, hope, life, vaccine
Even the best drugs currently available cannot weed out HIV from all of its hiding places within the body, according to a new study of HIV patients in the United States. The discovery seems to confirm doctors’ suspicions that once the virus gains a foothold, it can never be fully eradicated from the body.
After years of aggressive drug treatment, the virus still hides out in significant reservoirs, particularly in tissues surrounding the gut lining, the researchers report. Cells in these tissues, a part of the immune system called ’gut-associated lymphoid tissue’, remain infected with the virus even though the patient may be leading an apparently healthy life.
Many HIV patients can manage their infection with a cocktail of drugs called antiretroviral therapies (ARTs). These can reduce their ’viral load’ – the amount of virus circulating in the blood plasma – to undetectable levels.
But the new study shows that even in such ’non-infectious’ patients the virus is still lurking in gut tissues, and still infecting other immune cells in the blood.
"It might not ever be possible to completely eradicate the virus from the body, even though people are doing well," says Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, who led the research. He adds, however, that this doesn’t mean that patients will be more likely than previously thought to pass on the virus to others.
Incurable
The finding underlines HIV’s status as an ’incurable’ infection, although in many cases doctors are able to stave off the onset of full-blown AIDS by giving patients sustained courses of drugs.
Indeed, so effective are current drugs that most say…
World War pictures
January 27, 2008 at 5:52 pm | In blogging | 5 CommentsTags: anti-human, images, life, pictures, Random
Dealing with your baby
January 27, 2008 at 2:33 am | In blogging | 2 CommentsTags: babies, heart to heart, Help, info, kids, life, parents, pictures, Random
Many new moms and dads have really NO idea how to deal with babies , they don’t know how to hold , how to clean or even how to fed EVEN if that was too obvious . the problem is that some people just don’t ask coz either they are so busy 
or embarrassed of asking others , or they may just don’t have the right people to ask for advice .
the biggest issue when dealing with babies is that parents should or [MUST] know that they are talking with super fragile creature . that can break under any pressure .
i was gonna talk about this m yet i thought that pictures worth 1000 words , so just FOLLOW the instructions and hope this helps someone
PLEASE these pictures are suppose to be funny , look for the value out of each one , even it makes you wonder if there is people who really can do that to their kids
I wanna Live there
January 26, 2008 at 11:47 pm | In blogging | Leave a CommentTags: design, house, life, pictures, Random, search, web
Compact four-rooms-in-one house. 
Designer Luigi Colani has created a space-saving house with a six square meter cylinder inside that contains a bedroom, kitchen and bathroom. The cylinder rotates left or right bringing the room you want into view of the main living room. There’s a separate toilet and a small hallway, and everything is controlled with a remote. The house was designed for young professionals who need minimal space while they focus on career…
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Life On another Planet !?
January 23, 2008 at 9:30 am | In blogging | Leave a CommentTags: aliens, anti-human, astronomy, galaxy, life, out-space, planets, Space
Radio astronomers say they have found evidence of large quantities of the chemical building blocks for life in a galaxy about 250 million light-years from Earth.
Arp 220 is so thick with stars that astronomers estimate supernovas, the suicidal explosions of young massive stars, are happening four times a year, as compared to our own relatively quiescent Milky Way galaxy, with a supernova about every half-century or so.
So it was with an open mind and no set agenda that astronomers collected data for about 30 hours last April using a device that analyses multiple frequencies simultaneously.
The instrument can detect chemicals that incoming radio waves have passed through before reaching the telescope’s collecting dish.
What they found, however, was totally unexpected: methanimine and hydrogen cyanide.
The discovery is significant because methanimine and hydrogen cyanide are building blocks for amino acids, the foundation of life.
"Methanimine has barely been seen in our own galaxy," says Arecibo astronomer Dr Christopher Salter. "Nobody had looked for it in deep space."
Salter and his colleagues didn’t even realise what they had found until they looked up what chemicals matched the distinctive patterns found in their data.
Scientists are now combing through their data to see if they can detect the simplest amino acid, glycine, which forms when methanimine and hydrogen cyanide are combined with water.
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