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Klebert L. Hall
10/31/09

In reply to Your Body May Already Have A Cancer Treatment Inside It
Well, your body already has all sorts of cancer treatments inside it. Problem is, they don't always work.
-Kle. #th17cells
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farcedude
10/30/09

In reply to Your Body May Already Have A Cancer Treatment Inside It
This is actually really awesome. As someone with an autoimmune disease, and though to be at increased risk for cancer because of it, I am greatly relieved. #th17cells
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Roklimber
10/30/09

In reply to Your Body May Already Have A Cancer Treatment Inside It
Not too long ago, I watched an extremely interesting TED talk on a new idea about what cancer may be, namely, part of the body's natural healing process, as counterintuitive as that may sound.

Watch it here:

[www.ted.com] #th17cells
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ovenmitt
10/30/09

In reply to Your Body May Already Have A Cancer Treatment Inside It
file under: things i wish my oncologist knew twenty one years ago. #th17cells
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Dr Emilio Lizardo
10/30/09

@ovenmitt: Don't get so excited. Slightly over 20 years ago on my first day as Medical Student Emilio Lizardo, a professor told us that monoclonal antibodies would be curing all cancer in 5 or 10 years. While there are some monoclonal antibodies available for treatment today and some can be combined with standard chemotherapy to improve the odds of curing a few disease, I see about 20 people a week that are proving him wrong.

I doubt this new development will put me out of business, but every little bit helps. #th17cells
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ovenmitt
10/30/09

@Dr Emilio Lizardo: so you're saying i should still be thankful for the Ara-C and BCNU. fine, i'll give. but i'll never forgive the creators of mycostatin. i haven't had a damn banana since 1988 and it's all their fault!

all in all, it seems like the best way to lose your job. #th17cells
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QamarCarmark
09/06/09

In reply to HIV Is Weaker Than We Think
I know this is a serious discussion but was I the only one that laughed when I saw the name Wayne Koff?
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Magicant
09/06/09

@QamarCarmark: haha - totally missed that. Thanks!
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Magicant
09/05/09

In reply to HIV Is Weaker Than We Think
All those Mickey Mouse balloons surrounding that cell? Disney really IS everywhere now.
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Trai_Dep
09/05/09

@Magicant: That's a common mistake laymen make. They're always been there, but it's taken Disney lawyers 20 years to file the correct paperwork protecting their IP.
Thankfully, their hard work is almost complete. Expect copyright infringement suits to be filed against the world's HIV+ people by the end of the month.
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GreyHammer
09/05/09

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why don we just ask what they did with magic johnson? guy has had HIV for over a decade and looks healthier than i am.
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ryno365
09/05/09

@GreyHammer:

Dont you remember? They injected him with finely grained money.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
09/05/09

@GreyHammer: He beat HIV to half to death with a basketball.
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Makidian
09/05/09

@GreyHammer: MJ is loaded beyond what most people know, so dude has access to the most cutting edge medicines, then and now. The way I understand it though is modern techniques for keeping the virus at bay are pretty successful which has helped to mitigate deaths and newer cases.
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spoogy
09/05/09

@GreyHammer: Sorry to go all serious, but that's the difference between having access to health care and not. I have two close friends with HIV, and they're both less likely to get a cold or flu going around than I am. The drugs, if one has access to them, seem to beat it back to very nearly nothing. Unfortunately, they're also very expensive. One has government assistance (which I believe is threatened by the California budget cuts,) and the other's insurance company is constantly trying to kick him off.
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Moff
09/05/09

@spoogy: Yeah, I had a coworker and friend who was HIV+ and had to keep his job (waiting tables) because if he lost it, obviously he couldn't pay for anything, but if he made any more money, New York state would stop subsidizing his medication. A very weird and troublesome situation.
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RandomFrequentFlierDent
09/05/09

@Makidian: The modern techniques for dealing with the virus are in no way close to being a substitute for a vaccine or cure. This isn't really directed at you, but it really bothers me when people act like the current drugs are all we need. HIV has a crazy high mutation rate and will eventually become immune to any drug used to treat it. That's why people who are HIV positive need to take cocktails of drugs and change the regime constantly. Not only are the drugs super expensive, but scientists are in what is pretty much a race against time/mutation rate to keep ahead of the virus.
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Trai_Dep
09/05/09

@RandomFrequentFlierDent: Yup. To say nothing of the side effects of said meds. It grates to no end when friends of mine (str8 & gay) shrug and giggle when admitting they sexed it up sans condom on occasion.
It ain't as simple as gulping an aspirin down to mitigate that hangover, kiddies...
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OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
05/02/09

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You mean I wont be able to use the chaos to initiate my New World Order? Oh well, I guess I have to fall back on plan B: a hot air balloon that makes everyone think they are animals.
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DangerousDac
05/02/09

In reply to Good News And Bad News In Swine Flu Analysis
Remember - Don't Call it Swine Flu!

As its made up of Man, Bird AND Pig DNA, I propose we call it Man-Bird-Pig Flu.

Im Serial!
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OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
05/02/09

@DangerousDac: I actually think its more of a Bird-Pig-Man flu.
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braak
03/30/09

In reply to Shooting Virtual Zombies Is Good For You, Officially
Thank god we've finally found a solution to a generally mild condition that affects less than 5% of the population.
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Slatz_Grobnik
03/30/09

In reply to Shooting Virtual Zombies Is Good For You, Officially
The problem is that all these "gaming is good" studies come down to something like "you're better at putting the round peg in the round hole," whereas the "gaming is bad" studies tend towards the "you're slowly turned into a callow murderer with no regard for human life."

I'm glad about the eyesight. I really wish they'd come up with some studies that point to social benefits or adaptations.
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tetracycloide
03/30/09

@Slatz_Grobnik: this is overstating the case for games being a destructive force by a considerable margin.
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Slatz_Grobnik
03/30/09

@tetracycloide: As some of the studies are. But that's neither here nor there. I stand by the principle of my assertion. The positives they find tend towards fluff, when compared to the negatives.
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tetracycloide
03/30/09

@Slatz_Grobnik: i challange you to post even one study that demonstrates anything even approaching that level of negative effect on a normal individual.
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OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
03/30/09

In reply to Shooting Virtual Zombies Is Good For You, Officially
All we need now is someone to prove gaming improves your social life.
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
03/30/09

In reply to Shooting Virtual Zombies Is Good For You, Officially
Really? I spent the whole weekend playing Killzone2 and COD and actually reached a point where tears were just randomly pouring out of my eyes they were so dry. That can't be good.

And no, I was not crying, never have... never will.

Oh and let me do the obligatory... WHAT IS THIS KOTAKU?!
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Gann
03/30/09

@Garrison Dean: I'm waiting for them to come out with tear-filled goggles to prevent the painful dry eye that inevitably results from a good fragfest. Oh, and they might be useful at work.
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Andrew Liptak
03/30/09

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Someone needs to tell that idiot lawyer out of Florida.
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