The conclusion in the latest state draft policy for women that transgenders are a result of hormonal imbalance has not gone down well with the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community. At the first meeting of the core committee that drafted the policy Friday, representatives of the community spent over two hours fighting the [...]
After the death of a homosexual man in West Hollywood this weekend, a city councilman conjured and addressed potential homophobic misunderstanding. Bacterial meningitis is an equal-opportunity pestilence. Before 1913, bacterial meningitis was nearly 100 percent fatal. Now that rate is around 16 percent in the U.S. Not more than a few hundred people in the [...]
South Africa’s health minister on Monday launched a new single dose anti-AIDs drug which will simplify the world’s biggest HIV treatment regime to just one life-saving pill a day. The three-in-one combination anti-retroviral (ARV) was secured at a record-low price and will cost the state 89 rand a month ($10, eight euros) per patient. “Before [...]
There is a lot of evolving going on in the US these days and no, the dolphins at SeaWorld have not suddenly sprouted opposable thumbs. The evolution is instead taking place in the minds of members of Congress, with long-held beliefs about same-sex marriage being jettisoned quicker than you can say “the polls are moving [...]
The body’s own “training manual” for successfully attacking HIV has been recorded by scientists and it is hoped it can be used to design vaccines. HIV mutates in order to survive the onslaught of a patient’s immune system. However, some patients develop highly effective antibodies that can neutralise huge swathes of HIV mutants. An analysis [...]
Of all the arguments swirling around the legality of same-sex marriage, it’s clear that a major concern is, as always, the kids. Supporters argue that same-sex parents need to provide their children with a stable and supportive family home, complete with the legal protections afforded heterosexual married couples. Opponents claim that children raised by same-sex [...]
My colleague and friend Regina Hechanova, the president of the Psychological Association of the Philippines (PAP), alerted me to an article on “Being Gay” that came out in another newspaper. At first I was thankful that homosexuality was being discussed openly by a public personality I like and respect. However, based on interviews with psychologist Camille Garcia, [...]
Two weeks ago, American doctors reported that they had“functionally” cured a baby infected with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, with an aggressive treatment of drugs starting some 30 hours after the baby was born. Experts hailed the feat but cautioned that the findings might have little relevance to adults. Now French researchers have identified 14 [...]
Using data drawn from queries entered into Google, Microsoft and Yahoo search engines, scientists at Microsoft, Stanford and Columbia University have for the first time been able to detect evidence of unreported prescription drug side effects before they were found by the Food and Drug Administration’s warning system. Using automated software tools to examine queries by [...]
少し前のことになりますが、2013年1月、ジュディ・フォスターがゴールデン・グローブ賞の特別功労賞の授賞時のスピーチで、同性愛者だということを公言して話題になりました。
Cette journée était marquée par une session très importante concernant la prévention, qui faisait une revue des nouveaux résultats d’essais PrEPs chez les singes et les femmes.
Deux militants d’Act Up-Paris sont présents toute la semaine à Atlanta pour suivre la vingtième édition de la CROI, la conférence américaine sur les rétrovirus et les infections opportunistes. Conforme à son principe fondateur, « Information = pouvoir », Act Up-Paris considère que cet événement scientifique est un lieu essentiel de réappropriation du savoir médical.
The concentration of interleukin 7 (IL-7) in the sperm of men infected with HIV-1 may be a determining factor in the efficiency of transmission of the virus. The IL-7 inhibits the apoptosis of infected cells, allowing them to produce more virus and increase the chances of the incoming virus to spread. To investigate the [...]
The brains of gay men and women look like those found in heterosexual people of the opposite sex, research suggests. The Swedish study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, compared the size of the brain’s halves in 90 adults. Gay men and heterosexual women had halves of a similar size, [...]
