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What Does It Take For Prophecy To Reach A Million Followers ??? A Plan Of Purpose
Just as Roseanne Barr become the Honorary Spokeswoman in a Stance Against Rape Culture stemming from the Steubenville, Ohio Gang Rape Case… Kirstie Alley has decided to head up a campaign of her own… against the Deadly Pharmaceutical and Psychotropic Drug industry.
Kirstie Alley took to her Twitter to express her disgust to the Television Commercial Advertising of Psychotropic Drugs, with side effects as severe as Death & Suicide. Her concerns were even published on RadarOnline.com
I have met Kirstie on several occasions, especially during her Season with Dancing with the Stars… So I couldn’t help but want to share some knowledge on her concerns, sending her the URL for the Documentary “Psychology: Making A Killing”, which she Retweeted to her 1 Million + followers.
I got mad retweets… and I’m glad that people are wanting to seek Truth, No Matter What The Deception
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By LAURAN NEERGAARD
AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – A baby born with the virus that causes AIDS appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who’s now 2½ and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection.
There’s no guarantee the child will remain healthy, although sophisticated testing uncovered just traces of the virus’ genetic material still lingering. If so, it would mark only the world’s second reported cure.
Specialists say Sunday’s announcement, at a major AIDS meeting in Atlanta, offers promising clues for efforts to eliminate HIV infection in children, especially in AIDS-plagued African countries where too many babies are born with the virus.
“You could call this about as close to a cure, if not a cure, that we’ve seen,” Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health, who is familiar with the findings, told The Associated Press.
A doctor gave this baby faster and stronger treatment than is usual, starting a three-drug infusion within 30 hours of birth. That was before tests confirmed the infant was infected and not just at risk from a mother whose HIV wasn’t diagnosed until she was in labor.
“I just felt like this baby was at higher-than-normal risk, and deserved our best shot,” Dr. Hannah Gay, a pediatric HIV specialist at the University of Mississippi, said in an interview.
That fast action apparently knocked out HIV in the baby’s blood before it could form hideouts in the body. Those so-called reservoirs of dormant cells usually rapidly reinfect anyone who stops medication, said Dr. Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. She led the investigation that deemed the child “functionally cured,” meaning in long-term remission even if all traces of the virus haven’t been completely eradicated.
Next, Persaud’s team is planning a study to try to prove that, with more aggressive treatment of other high-risk babies. “Maybe we’ll be able to block this reservoir seeding,” Persaud said.
No one should stop anti-AIDS drugs as a result of this case, Fauci cautioned.
But “it opens up a lot of doors” to research if other children can be helped, he said. “It makes perfect sense what happened.”
Better than treatment is to prevent babies from being born with HIV in the first place.
About 300,000 children were born with HIV in 2011, mostly in poor countries where only about 60 percent of infected pregnant women get treatment that can keep them from passing the virus to their babies. In the U.S., such births are very rare because HIV testing and treatment long have been part of prenatal care.
“We can’t promise to cure babies who are infected. We can promise to prevent the vast majority of transmissions if the moms are tested during every pregnancy,” Gay stressed.
The only other person considered cured of the AIDS virus underwent a very different and risky kind of treatment – a bone marrow transplant from a special donor, one of the rare people who is naturally resistant to HIV. Timothy Ray Brown of San Francisco has not needed HIV medications in the five years since that transplant.
The Mississippi case shows “there may be different cures for different populations of HIV-infected people,” said Dr. Rowena Johnston of amFAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research. That group funded Persaud’s team to explore possible cases of pediatric cures.
It also suggests that scientists should look back at other children who’ve been treated since shortly after birth, including some reports of possible cures in the late 1990s that were dismissed at the time, said Dr. Steven Deeks of the University of California, San Francisco, who also has seen the findings.
“This will likely inspire the field, make people more optimistic that this is possible,” he said.
In the Mississippi case, the mother had had no prenatal care when she came to a rural emergency room in advanced labor. A rapid test detected HIV. In such cases, doctors typically give the newborn low-dose medication in hopes of preventing HIV from taking root. But the small hospital didn’t have the proper liquid kind, and sent the infant to Gay’s medical center. She gave the baby higher treatment-level doses.
The child responded well through age 18 months, when the family temporarily quit returning and stopped treatment, researchers said. When they returned several months later, remarkably, Gay’s standard tests detected no virus in the child’s blood.
Ten months after treatment stopped, a battery of super-sensitive tests at half a dozen laboratories found no sign of the virus’ return. There were only some remnants of genetic material that don’t appear able to replicate, Persaud said.
In Mississippi, Gay gives the child a check-up every few months: “I just check for the virus and keep praying that it stays gone.”
The mother’s HIV is being controlled with medication and she is “quite excited for her child,” Gay added.
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Though He's Going Through A Rough Week... Sam Jones Is Still Smilin' And Survivin'
It’s not a good week to be dating the 2nd Generation of Playboy’s “Girls Next Door”
Just a few days ago, it was announced that Crystal Harris and Hugh Hefner broke up. The interwebs is still crawling with rumors as to why… Was Crystal getting banged out by Joe McGraw? One of Dr. Phil’s sons? Or was it Hugh’s age? Or Crystal trying to bank $500k on a Reality Show special with the Lifetime Channel to embarrass Hugh by leaving him at the Altar? Or was Crystal tired of her few hundred dollar a week allowance and wanted to start her own music career?
Either which way, that’s old news now. Cause from what I’ve been told, Sam Jones and Karissa Shannon, 1/2 of the Shannon Twins 2-for-1 Special, has officially called it quits.
Karissa was living at Sam’s place and has already moved out all of her belongings in no less than one day.
Sadly, it’s looking like a rough week for Sam, who has to face a judge in exactly 7 days from yesterday’s break up.
But Sam was seen at Katsuya last night with a buddy and driving a brand new Bentley. I guess if you’re gonna have a rough week, might as well have it baller style.
Who Needs 2 Twins When You've Got 2 Hundred Thousand Dollar Cars ???
Keep ya head up Sam, we’re praying for you and all you’ve got to deal with in these days.
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After all... "Scream" is the movie that started it all
Courtney Cox and David Arquette are together again… To promote the latest installment of the film that started it all for this A-list… whatever you want to call them right now.
Courtney and David first met on the set of the original “Scream” 15 years ago, before it became such a huge franchise. This film is what started this couple off to become one of Hollywood’s A-List power couples, where even the sale of their Malibu home for $33 Million to Dodgers Owner Frank McCourt, who was still married to Jamie McCourt at the time. Strangely, they also would see the downfall of their own marriage. Maybe that Malibu house is cursed !!! Maybe if you have the word “court” in your name, and you live in that house, you’re destined for divorce “court”.
So Dave and Courtney split last year, or at least gave themselves a trial separation. Dave obviously became a mess after that, with news of an alleged affair with Jasmine Waltz (who def gets around the Hollywood In-Crowd) and Dave subsequently landing himself in rehab. I’m sure his drunken stupors were from his lack of Court. And in recent weeks Courtney’s been seen frolicking on beaches of St. Bart’s with “Cougars” co-star Josh Hopkins.
But even more recently, the two have been (more…)
Today marks the 17 year anniversary of when Rock Legend Kurt Donald Cobain tragically took his own life after years of battling Heroine addiction. This was a tragic ending to a life that held so much promise, as he was only 27 years old at the time of his death. Kurt formed the band Nirvana in 1986 after a tumultuous childhood, with his parents divorcing at a young age, and being bullied in high school by jocks who called him “queer”.
Nirvana recorded their debut album, Bleach, under the independent label Sub-Pop Records, before signing to Geffen Records in 1991, which released Nirvana’s landmark album, Nevermind.
Kurt married Courtney Love in 1992, who gave birth to their daughter Francis Bean Cobain in August of that year. in the same year, the group released the album Incesticide, and the following album, In Utero was released in 1993.
On March 4th, 1994, Kurt was taken to a hospital in an apparent suicide attempt that was declared an accident. Courtney Love and other family members begged for the legendary rocker to seek rehab, but their attempts were futile as his body was discovered on April 8th, 1994 in his Seattle home. A shotgun was found in his arms, and the firearm had fired into his head. He left a note written in red ink to his wife Courtney and daughter Francis. The last words of the letter were “I love you, I love you”.
In the years since his passing, Kurt is remembered as one of the greatest musicians in modern rock, with Nirvana considered one of the top rock albums of all time, and their greatest hit, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is still considered the greatest song of modern rock to this day. Sadly, Kurt will always be remembered and missed, and as it seems, Courtney’s love has continued to seem lost without him. She has suffered many years of continued drug addiction, stints in and out of rehab, and many life mishaps that have continued to make her fodder for tabloids. Let’s hope Courtney continues to stay strong, and keep the memory of Kurt’s life even stronger
Courtney Love has lived a life longing for the lost love of her life... Kurt Cobain
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