The Chinese government has unveiled a multifaceted new strategy to deal with AIDS within it’s borders, reports the Shanghai Daily News. The plan calls for cooperation between different levels of government, including local citizen’s groups. The rights of citizens with HIV/AIDS have also been established.
This plan will help China to reduce the harm from this epidemic. There are 650 000 HIV/AIDS cases currently reported in China.
For the first time since King Tut’s tomb was found in 1922, an untouched tomb has been found. Inside were found five mummies. The mummies were in sarcophagi dating from the 18th Dynasty, from 1567 BC to 1320 BC.
According to the director of the dig, “This cache is important because it will tell us what the Valley of the Kings was really like.”
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Detecting Alzheimer’s early allows for better treatment, and a new test that looks at the eye can make early detection a lot easier. Those with Alzheimer’s have cloudy-looking plaques that are present in the eye long before other signs of Alzheimer’s show.
A Harvard researcher says a laser-based diagnostic system might be used to detect the disease long before it affects the brain, allowing for early treatment that could defer its degenerative symptoms.
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Researchers working at the Vanderbilt School of Medecine in Nashville may have found a substance which kills the HIV virus. The chemical called CSA-54 mimicks the functioning of a healthy immune system. It works by attacking the membrane of the HIV virus, preventing it from infecting it’s target cells, the body’s own Helper T immune cells.
The scientists are hesitant to call their new drug a cure, as much peer review still needs to be done. If all the testing goes well, the drug could be available for prescription in 3 to 7 years.
There are 40.3 million people in the world with AIDS.