ESTABLISHED HIV infection is easy to control but impossible to cure. Or almost impossible. The exception seems to be Timothy Brown, a man often referred to as the Berlin patient. In 2006, after a decade of successfully suppressing his infection with anti-retroviral drugs, Mr Brown developed an unrelated blood cancer, acute myeloid leukaemia. To treat…
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Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson said in a TV interview with Newsmax TV that he would finish his current term but would “likely” depart after the 2020 presidential election. “I would be interested in returning to the private sector because I think you have just as much influence, maybe more, there,” Carson…
The new year has started in a familiar, chaotic way at Tesla. It wasn't supposed to be like this. It was supposed to be that the company's financial success at the end of 2018 changed its destiny and DNA, that it would start to behave like the "real car company" CEO Elon Musk so often…
UNDER ENOUGH heat, atoms start to fly apart. Such is the state of Britain’s political parties as Brexit day approaches. Theresa May, the Conservative prime minister, has long insisted that Britain will leave the European Union on March 29th, deal or no deal. This week she conceded that Parliament would be allowed to request more…
Read Monday’s live updates on the aftermath of the tornadoes in the Southeast. The first tornado warning in central Alabama went out around 1 p.m. Sunday. In the hours that followed, a cluster of storms ripped through the Southeast, spawning multiple tornadoes, killing at least 23 and leaving a trail of rubble. As the storms…
A federal incentive for research into rare diseases for so-called orphan drugs is beloved by pharmaceutical companies. And during Donald Trump’s first two years in office, the Food and Drug Administration has been authorizing them at an unprecedented rate, according to Axios. Rare diseases are those that affect 200,000 or fewer people in the country,…
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said he would vote in favor of blocking President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration, according to the Bowling Green Daily News. Paul reportedly said in a speech to nearly 200 Republicans Saturday that he objected to allowing Trump to exercise "extra-Constitutional powers" by using the national emergency to secure funds to…
IN IMPROBABLY WARM weather some 500 people gathered on February 23rd in Plaza de la Villa, one of Madrid’s oldest squares, to launch the election campaign of Ciudadanos (Citizens), one of Spain’s newer political parties. A year ago Ciudadanos, which describes itself as a centrist, liberal party, was leading the opinion polls, with around 27%…
But less understood is that the violence that befalls migrant women happens not just during the perilous journey through Mexico: Much of it happens after women reach the supposed safety of the United States. In July, a 23-year-old Honduran woman told the authorities that she was sexually assaulted in a bedroom closet by a smuggler…
