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...million, six-year trial, which involved more than 16,000 people in Thailand - the largest AIDS-vaccine trial ever conducted - found that an experimental vaccine was 31% effective in preventing HIV infection. The volunteer group in the study was representative of the general Thai adult population, including low-risk, heterosexual adults. Calling the results of the trial a "significant scientific advance," officials at the World Health Organization said the results reinvigorated the stalled quest for a vaccine against AIDS, which is estimated to kill some 2 million people globally each year. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
Both Kim and Fauci emphasize that it will probably be a "significant period of time" before the trial results lead to a vaccine that can be submitted for approval for use in the general public, if such a breakthrough occurs at all. Most licensed vaccines have an efficacy rate of at least 70%, although it's possible that an HIV vaccine with lower efficacy may gain approval, Kim says. "The efficacy threshold may be a consideration that is specific to individual countries, the nature of their HIV-AIDS epidemics and the performance characteristics of the vaccine," Kim says...
...season is definitely here," says Dr. Anne Schuchat, a CDC assistant surgeon general who is helping to coordinate the response. "We don't know when it is going to peak or how many waves there will...
...Even the narration has trouble following the train of thought. Kurton takes stage, joking, “Every divide between the Two Cultures is bridgeable, except this one: humanists write out their talks and scientists extemporize.” With his mixture of humorous anecdotes and general charisma, Kurton emerges the clear winner. Modernity, Powers illustrates, shuffles the artist’s and the scientist’s roles: as the artist appeals to reason, the scientist to emotion and narrative.This conflation of the sciences and the humanities is perhaps the most identifiable characteristic about Powers’s work...
...mass protection of the soldier’s war crimes, or seriously questioning the tactics of the Israeli army, the point is, it triggers a consideration of these topics. “Artists always have their own point of view and angles,” says the Consul General of Israel to New England, Nadav Tamir, who co-sponsored the screening at the HFA. “You can’t ask them to speak for a national narrative. It’s always their story. And they play an important role in society in raising questions...