OPEN LETTER I have been accused by a few members of this board of being 'irresponsible' and 'endangering' the lives of young people. This accusation could possibly be correct, but is based on one fundamental assumption. The assumption being that I am wrong in my assessments and they are right. Clearly I do not consider that to be the case. If 'AIDS' really is a sexually transmitted disease and condoms really do

Abbott AIDS drug pricing leads to review of patent Chicago Tribune - May 21, 2004 Bruce Japsen, Tribune staff reporter http://www.aegis.org/news/ct/2004/CT040510.html ----------------------------------------------- Abbott Laboratories' decision to quadruple the price of a widely used AIDS drug has prompted government regulators to explore

The following "rambling and incoherent" rant was written by my brother several days ago in an e-mail to our father. My brother is currently in the depths of a manic psychosis from hell and is so far removed from reality at present he is not even in this solar system. I realize it is poor netiquette to repost a private e-mail to a newsgroup, but it is so funny (in a sad sort of way) that I thought y'all should read it. My father printed it out to show to his psychiatrist, so his privacy has...

Abbott AIDS drug price hike hit by suit, protest Reuters, 04.19.04, 4:05 PM ET CHICAGO, April 19 (Reuters) - Abbott Laboratories Inc. (nyse: ABT - news - people) was hit with a federal antitrust lawsuit on Monday by patients charging the company with illegally jacking up the price of a popular AIDS drug by 400 percent. The pharmaceutical company made a decision last December to raise the price of Norvir, a key component of many AIDS-fighting cocktails.

Weekly cycles of once-daily anti-HIV drugs could reduce cost of HIV treatment In a small study conducted at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers have shown that it may be feasible to treat HIV-infected patients with a simple, once-daily regimen of anti-HIV drugs given in pre-planned, 7-day-on, 7-day-off cycles. This approach is known formally as ''short-cycle structured intermittent antiretroviral therapy'' (SIT) or colloquially as the ''7-7'' approach.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3729487.stm It's not about HIV or AIDS, of course, but this debate over allegedly disease causing "nannobacteria" should seem more than a little familiar by now. It certainly involves a lot of the same issues.

One does wonder when the arrogance of FDA grew so enormous that they became the FDA of the Planet Earth. Ugh. Well, that's what happens when it is run by an industry slut like Tommy Thompson, who helped push through the boondoggle Medicare drug prescription act that is nothing but a great big slush fund for the rapists and genocidal shits of the pharmaceutical industry. George M. Carter ****

I used to be a hardcore tweeker but have been off it for 5 years now. Anyway, my out of state brother has been flaking out bad for at least 2 years now. He had a good job and our parents BOUGHT him both a nice condo which he pays no rent on AND a nice car which he doesn't have to make payments on. I should probably mention that he has AIDS, but is covered by both the county AIDS assistance program and company health insurance (or was until he lost his job several months ago), so the cost of...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/17/health/17AIDS.html?ex=1085371200&en=5f88ffd5718252eb&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE U.S. Speeding Up Approval Steps for AIDS Drugs By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN Published: May 17, 2004 WASHINGTON, May 16 — The Bush administration announced a significant shift in its AIDS policy on Sunday, expediting the approval process for generic and combination antiretroviral drugs so they can be

"HIV did not, after all, kill T-cells" In 1990 at the San Francisco AIDS conference, Montagnier announced that HIV did not, after all, kill T-cells and could not be the cause of AIDS. Within hours of making this announcement, he was attacked by the very industry he'd helped to create. Montagnier's not a liar. He's a so-so scientist who's in over his head. Afterword:

Dear "PaulKing" et al: Please explain just what the agenda is behind your posts. I am having trouble finding the logic in the repeated posting of only several articles you have been making. Outside of reading your name repeatedly in the "Sent By" column for this newsgroup, I'm afraid that outside of arguing for it's own sake, your point escapes me. There was a time when this newsgroup used to be a valuable resource of information. It was a place where new concepts, ideas, and research were...

I had the most unpleasant experience yesterday. I'm babysitting my brother in Las Vegas because he's insane (literally). And while both of us are bipolar, the crystal meth sent him over the edge into full-blown manic psychosis. So I'm trying to hook him up with a psychiatrist and because he has AIDS he managed to get in at the county AIDS clinic. Yesterday morning we went to the welfare office and I thought that was embarrassing enough, but that afternoon we went to the AIDS clinic to see...

"Big Mouth" <b@m.n> schreef in bericht news:kVcpc.790$SZ4.260@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net... That's a transmission rate of 3/45 or 6.7%. If transmission from male to female is 6.7%, then how low is transmission from female to male? Note that there has not been a single incidence in the porn industry of a female performer infecting the men she worked with and causing an HIV outbreak (present alleged Brazilian

CAUCASIAN TEEN 'AIDS' CASES (entire USA) BETWEEN July 1983 and December 2001 = 1211 (male and female). Source: - CDC TWELVE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN in nearly 18 years or a mere 67 cases a year. JUST OVER ONE CAUCASIAN TEEN 'AIDS' CASE PER U.S. STATE A YEAR. HARDLY AN 'EPIDEMIC! That figure of 1.28 cases per State is lower than gun shotdeaths in the

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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=125&art_id=vn20040509101804573C786518&set_id=1 US won't give aid for generic HIV drugs May 09 2004 at 10:18AM By Christelle Terreblanche As South Africa starts rolling out the world's biggest HIV and Aids treatment programme, an unexpected stumbling block is hindering

Interesting New York Times article: - RARE CANCER SEEN IN 41 HOMOSEXUALS Outbreak Occurs Among Men in New York and California -8 Died Inside 2 Years by Lawrence K. Altman Doctors in New York and California have diagnosed among homosexual men 41 cases of a rare and often rapidly fatal form of cancer. Eight of the victims died less than 24 months after the diagnosis was made.

DC Accused Of Purposely Undercounting HIV Cases by Paul Johnson 365Gay.com Newscenter Washington Bureau Chief Posted: May 10, 2004 12:01 am. ET (Washington) A decision by the Centers for Disease Control only to count cases of HIV from states which record the patients names has

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9502965%255E1702,00.html US AIDS numbers 'undercounted' From correspondents in Washington May 08, 2004 DEMOCRATIC US politicians said today the federal Centres for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention was undercounting HIV cases across the United States by refusing to accept data from California and other states that don't record patients' names.

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