DrDawkinstein Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Go USA! http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/03/us-doctors-cure-child-born-hiv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4merper4mer Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Go USA! http://www.guardian....-child-born-hiv Hasn't Magic Johnson been cured for like years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Hindsight Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Hasn't Magic Johnson been cured for like years? Living with, not cured Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDawkinstein Posted March 4, 2013 Author Share Posted March 4, 2013 Living with, not cured Yeah, he went from full blown AIDS back to HIV, but still needs treatment and monitoring. Theyre saying this kid is completely clear. That's huge, even if it is simply curing the children born with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sodbuster Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 in a cruel twist of ironic fate, the doctors name is "Gay" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 The condom industry isn't going to like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Living with, not cured He's still realing them in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drinkTHEkoolaid Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Well....just let me know the company to invest in.... now about cancer... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacka Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 You can't "cure" it. The virus inserts in your DNA and is there forever. They said that there are a"almost no viruses detected." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 You can't "cure" it. The virus inserts in your DNA and is there forever. They said that there are a"almost no viruses detected." They cured one guy with a bone marrow transplant (he received it for leukemia, they gave him marrow from a donor with the gene for HIV resistance, so as new T-cells were created they wouldn't be infected). This case...I'm very curious how they definitively test a baby at 30 hours old. Without knowing the initial tests or their accuracy (and it's not like they're doing an antibody test on a newborn), it's hard not to suggest they might have had a false positive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 They cured one guy with a bone marrow transplant (he received it for leukemia, they gave him marrow from a donor with the gene for HIV resistance, so as new T-cells were created they wouldn't be infected). This case...I'm very curious how they definitively test a baby at 30 hours old. Without knowing the initial tests or their accuracy (and it's not like they're doing an antibody test on a newborn), it's hard not to suggest they might have had a false positive. Until I'm proven wrong, I place this squarely with the "discovery" of cold fusion 30 years ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4merper4mer Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Living with, not cured That is splitting heirs. Magic has lived for like 25 years with it. How long does he have to live with it before he is cured? 100 years? That's a joke. It is great that he is still around. 25 years sure seems like a cure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDawkinstein Posted March 6, 2013 Author Share Posted March 6, 2013 That is splitting heirs. Magic has lived for like 25 years with it. How long does he have to live with it before he is cured? 100 years? That's a joke. It is great that he is still around. 25 years sure seems like a cure. Big difference between cure and treatment. Big ($$$$$$$) difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 That is splitting heirs. Magic has lived for like 25 years with it. How long does he have to live with it before he is cured? 100 years? That's a joke. It is great that he is still around. 25 years sure seems like a cure. People live 50 years with diabetes by taking insulin. Thats not a "cure". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4merper4mer Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 People live 50 years with diabetes by taking insulin. Thats not a "cure". If they got to live 200 years would that be a cure then? Geez dude everyone dies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Poojer Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 What about zombies??? If they got to live 200 years would that be a cure then? Geez dude everyone dies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 What about zombies??? Even they pass away eventually. But not before royally !@#$ing up the Raiders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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