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...year ago, such rhetoric would probably have gone nowhere. This year it went viral. Starting as a post-Mass discussion group of two dozen people in January, VOTF has seen its e-mail membership climb to 10,000, and Muller reports receiving inquiries from parishes in 40 states about founding their own chapters. Muller himself, a cardiologist, has grown more cautious as his movement has grown bigger. On the Voice website is a set of presentations marked "VOTF Working Paper." They appear to outline a church in which elected lay people would wield as much authority as the clergy...
...researchers from Harvard and University of Pennsylvania, have identified a form of ribonucleic acid called “short interfering RNA” (siRNA) that inhibits viruses from replicating and entering healthy cells—a finding they said could lead to advances in fighting HIV and possibly other viral infections...
Carl D. Novina, one of the MIT researchers, described the two experiments that led the scientists to conclude that siRNA can inhibit viral infections...
Another criticism: Togias failed to report that his first subject (Roche was the third) had developed a cough. It went away, and Togias assumed it had to do with a viral infection making the rounds at Bayview at the time. To be safe, he added a buffer solution to the hexamethonium--but without informing the IRB, which he should have done. That omission may be a reflection of the prevailing sentiment at many hospitals: that the IRB and its review process are a bureaucratic pain in the neck, not a clinical necessity...
...While viral conjunctivitis is similar to the common cold and will usually disappear on its own, bacterial conjunctivitis must be treated with antibiotics...