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...half the subjects were dead by the time the study ended. Of those still alive, many were self-medicating with multiple other illicit drugs or alcohol and 67% smoked cigarettes. Not surprisingly, heroin users suffer from a wide range of medical ills, including hypertension, liver and pulmonary diseases and HIV. But the most common cause of death from heroin is overdose, with 22% of the subjects in the long-term study dying that way. Some of the health problems associated with heroin come from the impurities it is cut with. Overdoses often spring from an uncut batch that is unexpectedly...
...Chemistry and Chemical Biology David R. Liu ’94, one of the class’s four professors, writes in an e-mail that he hopes students will emerge from the course with an awareness of how concepts from different disciplines come together in contexts such as HIV and cancer.“The value of interdisciplinary approaches in scientific research is already widely appreciated,” Liu writes. “Hopefully courses such as LS1a will reveal the value of interdisciplinary approaches in science education as well.”Though the professors already have...
...sent around, but it's an invitation no one ever wants to get. InSPOTLA.org a controversial website launched in mid-December by Los Angeles County, lets people e-mail their sexual partners a free, unsigned Internet postcard--with or without a personal note--stating that the sender has had HIV or another sexually transmitted disease diagnosed and that the recipient should get tested. Targeting gay men who meet online, the program is based on the original inSPOT.org website, which began in San Francisco more than a year ago to combat the syphilis epidemic in that population but only just started...
That may seem like progress, but not everyone agrees. Critics argue that e-cards are an insensitive way to tell people about something as grave and personal as HIV and can be abused by pranksters wanting to play jokes. "What if you're vulnerable emotionally, and you get a surprise [HIV] e-mail?" asks West Hollywood city councilman Jeffrey Prang. "Maybe the computer at your office or home isn't secure." Still, compared with the risks of ignorance, those might be chances worth taking...
...about the nature of giving, and what makes for temporary relief vs. lasting change. Sudden disasters get the big headlines, but day after day other tragedies of avoidable dimensions unfold: the one child who dies of malaria in Africa every 29 seconds, the one person who is infected with HIV every 6.4 seconds, the 8 million who die every year because they are too poor to stay alive. And who is proving most effective in figuring out how to eradicate those calamities? In different ways, it is Bill and Melinda Gates, co-founders of the world's wealthiest charitable foundation...