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When it comes to treating children with HIV and AIDS, physicians are often forced to practice hand-me-down medicine. There are 275,000 adults living with HIV in the U.S. and only 4,500 HIV-positive youngsters under age 13--most of whom were infected in the womb. Children are not just smaller, cuter copies of adults. Their immune systems are not yet fully developed. Their brains are more vulnerable to HIV. When they get sick with AIDS, many of them deteriorate more rapidly than adults. They need treatments tailored to their size and condition. "But pharmaceutical companies...
From those visions and their successors in Christianity's first millennium, a colorful, sometimes contradictory mystical vocabulary of heaven emerged. It was a garden, a city, a kingdom, a temple or, less often, a nut, a womb, a navel. It featured buildings and streets of precious metals and jewels, doves, palm trees (first discerned by the church father Lactantius), singing stones (a late borrowing from Celtic myth), white clothing, milk, honey, wine, olive oil, harps, fountains and ladders. It also developed a set of intractable controversies...
...Women who have had TUBAL STERILIZATION, now hear this. If you wind up conceiving (which is rare), you face a 30% risk of an ectopic pregnancy--in which the egg implants outside the womb. One-sided pelvic pain and unusual vaginal bleeding are symptoms. Don't ignore them...
...made chemicals can invade the womb and the egg and permanently change the development of the individual," she said. "The changes may not be realized until adulthood...
...propagation of this truism begins even when we are in the womb of our Harvard careers. Pre-frosh are told to expect four years of near monastic conditions. In a scene that can be likened to a weaning infant bidding farewell to his final bottle, first-years watch mournfully as they learn how to unroll a condom on a wooden penis. Lamenting Eros' death at Harvard is like watching the State of the Union address; it's not at all revealing, but still important enough to ruin a night of TV. In truth, the weighty miasma of chastity that hangs...