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...Mbeki is certainly on solid ground in stressing that economic factors determine who will survive and who will die of AIDS. Drug treatments that have successfully slowed the onset of AIDS in HIV-positive people in the West would, even at discounted prices, cost at least $1,000 per patient every year, on a continent where average annual incomes are well below $400 and 25 million people are believed to be infected. Indeed, pharmaceutical corporations will take even more heat than Mbeki has from the activists and scientists involved in the conference, many of whom urge dispensing with profit motives...
...decade ago by signing onto to the "Durban Declaration," a manifesto published in Nature magazine underlining the urgency of curbing the spread of HIV as the priority in the fight against AIDS. The declaration concurs that economic factors such as malnutrition make those infected more prone to the rapid onset of AIDS following HIV infection, and also that poverty puts lifesaving treatments beyond the means of the overwhelming majority of those infected. But it stresses that "none of these factors weakens the scientific evidence that HIV is the sole cause of the AIDS epidemic...
...scientist whose work has been transformed by genomics is Dr. David Altshuler, an endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who does research at M.I.T.'s Whitehead Institute. A diabetes expert, he wanted to learn more about a gene known to be involved in adult-onset (Type II) diabetes and obesity. He knew that the gene was about 100,000 chemical letters--or base pairs--long, and that only about 2,000 of those directed the production of a protein...
Rudenstine mused upon his arrival in 1991 that he planned to stay no longer than a decade. After accomplishing the major goals stated at the onset of his tenure--including a wildly successful $2.6 billion capital campaign--Rudenstine has chosen to step down at an opportune time. The endowment has grown, the chronic budget deficits of many departments have disappeared, and Harvard Yard has seen a number of renovations, first-year residences to Annenberg Hall and the Barker Center. Although the capital campaign was at the center of his tenure, Rudenstine will also be remembered for his artful negotiation...
...then that her cousin developed juvenile-onset diabetes. And Manson's mother was a medical social worker and her father was a scientist, Medicine and science were frequent topics of discussion around the house...