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...some point. Second, the body most often clears the HPV virus on its own, without ever causing cancer or other symptoms (some strains of HPV also cause genital warts). "More than 80% of the infections will clear within two years of acquiring," he says, underscoring the accepted recommendation by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists that HPV tests not be used as a cervical-cancer screening tool in younger women, but only in women ages 30 and older. Infections are more likely to be persistent in this age group, which puts them at greater risk for cervical cancer...
...problem is that nobody, including the experts, knows how early is early enough. And now the largest study to date attempting to answer that question suggests that initiating anti-HIV therapy far earlier than current guidelines recommend could save more lives. The findings are setting off a lively debate in the AIDS community about whether those guidelines should be changed - and how soon...
...what will happen when the new computerized research turns up a treatment that works a little better but costs a lot more? Will the government-sponsored researchers tell us? What happens to the patient whose particular circumstances argue for a different treatment from what the computers and bureaucrats recommend...
...Optimalist" Most people would define optimism as being eternally hopeful, endlessly happy, with a glass that's perpetually half full. But that's exactly the kind of deluded cheerfulness that positive psychologists wouldn't recommend. "Healthy optimism means being in touch with reality," says Tal Ben-Shahar, a Harvard professor who taught the university's most popular course, Positive Psychology, from 2002 to 2008. "It certainly doesn't mean being Pollyannaish and thinking everything is great and wonderful...
...again. Suddenly, members found themselves contemplating giving more power to the guy whom many wanted fired last week. "It is clear that we're going to need to ask, and we will ask, for broader authority to deal with future AIGs," Geithner warned the committee. "Our responsibility is to recommend to Congress what's necessary to help get the economy back on track. And if that requires more resources, it will be our obligation to come to you and make the case for that...