ART to reduce HIV in 10 years: new study, old concept

Can AIDS be eradicated in 10 years, as a study in today’s Lancet suggests?
In a mathematical model, sure. In practice? Absolutely — if the world were perfect.
“The plausibility is very strong, but it’s the logistics …” says UNC’s Myron Cohen, chief of infectious diseases and director of UNC’s Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases. [...]

Have a perfect holiday? Yeah, right.

Clinton wrote this …
Jonathan Abramowitz. Remember that name. Or, Dr. Abramowitz. Or just “Abramowitz.”
As the extended family descend this Thanksgiving expecting a big spread, think to yourself, “Abramowitz.”
When the brother-in-law tries harder because you’re not laughing at his jokes, “Abramowitz.”
As the kids and the cousins and the co-workers and the neighbors drop hints and wait [...]

Lost before translation

Clinton wrote this …
I briefly blogged a while back about basic science conducted by UNC’s Mark Zylka. The work is wonderful in many ways — it’s novel, it’s elegant — all of those descriptions we use to make science seem more like art.
It’s also translational science — basic research that aims to offer new hope [...]

Check out the N.C. Children’s Promise blog

Tom wrote this …
Sorry to be writing this in a rush, but … everyone in my office, myself included, is busy today at the North Carolina Children’s Promise radiothon/telethon.  This is the big annual fundraising event for the North Carolina Children’s Hospital here at UNC.
But instead of writing about this event myself, I’m going to [...]

Cocaine on the brains of mothers and infants

Clinton wrote this …
Josephine Johns was sitting on her sofa one night, many years ago, watching the nightly news, when along came a story …
The cops were hauling away a bunch of little children, their mother crying and screaming, “don’t take my kids! I love my kids.”
Josephine’s first reaction, she says, “sure, you really show [...]

Taking it to the SMS

Clinton wrote this …
Wow. How many kids in the U.S. are overweight? Is that 19%? And 80% of overweight adolescents become obese adults?
(See this related story in TPP’s Well blog and this one by WebMD.)
Just think of one kid. Just one. Maybe the kid down the street, or a niece or a cousin twice removed. [...]

Financial crunch compounds health problems

Clinton wrote this …

There’s no question that the financial crash, and the slow creep out of the abyss, has affected health care — people are putting off routine care and elective procedures, they’re seeking care in the ED, researchers face a future of more anemic funding, a friend of mine at UPMC was laid off.

The [...]