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...While new drug cocktails make living with HIV more of a reality than ever before, millions continue to die, either because they cannot afford that life-extending cocktail, or because they've developed a new form of AIDS that's resistant or non-responsive to existing drugs. Many others will die because they don't believe AIDS is still a deadly disease: recent breakthroughs in treatment means the gut-wrenching fear of the late 1980s has evaporated - and with it, obsessive (and lifesaving) condom use. Today, young people in many developed countries, including the U.S. have seen people live symptom...
...There was good news for patients struggling with drug-resistant AIDS; Roche's Enfuvirtide, or T-20, has had great success in two large late-stage trials. The drug is a so-called "fusion inhibitor," which, when added to a patient's larger drug cocktail, reduces the HIV levels found in the blood. T-20's trial performance was better than what researchers had hoped for. But even amidst this positive development, some AIDS experts expressed concern that the drug might have unknown long-term side effects. (The trials lasted just 24 weeks...
...more effective when used in combination with an existing regimen. Does this rule out T-20 for anyone who cannot afford a very expensive cocktail? "Not necessarily," says Dr. Kennedy. "They will start testing the drug on its own." But for now, T-20 serves little purpose for those in countries without access to costly AIDS drugs...
...There are even some newcomers, including the Scot-Indian Cameron. After living in Australia, Britain and Africa, he says he's finally found his home. Before arriving in McCluskieganj, his restless blood led him through a rainbow of identities, from Indian army captain to cocktail pianist, author to pilot, headmaster to racehorse breeder. Yet only in McCluskieganj, he says, among his fellow outsiders, is he truly himself. "Because I'm rather swarthy, people in England and Australia mistake me for an African or an Aboriginal," he says. "Nobody knows who you are or what you are. But here, in this...
...memoir, Lucky) is the tale of an ordinary girl who is raped, murdered and dismembered in a field near her house. Three days later, a neighbor's dog comes trotting home with her elbow in its mouth. This is horror at its darkest and most tantalizing - a stiff cocktail of David Lynch and Judy Blume, served with a distinct chill - and as first chapters go, it's a knockout. The second chapter tops it. What happens to little girls after they die? They go to heaven - and that's exactly what Susie does. In The Lovely Bones (an exquisite corpse...