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A life-goal of mine: Turn HIV-1 into herpes. An STD that sucks, you have to take meds for, you have to tell your partner about, need to worry about passing to your baby in childbirth, but not a soul crushing death sentence, anywhere.
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So, they've been handing out this award for 40 years. For 39 of them, they couldn't see fit to find any woman qualified to receive it. But FINALLY! Yay! Three cheers for Frances E. Allen, 2006 winner of the Turing Award and its $100,000 prize!
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Note from ERV-- Like all posts on ERV, I wrote this one the night before (Thurs) and scheduled it for the next day (Fri). But with this post, I wrote it, but then just saved it, intending to completely alter the tone of the post as I was eating breakfast. But then I woke up to an extremely…
Verizon, in its wisdom, has decided that Chateau Steelypips is not, in fact, in need of DSL service this weekend. We've been without Internet connectivity since mid-afternoon yesterday. This is probably for the best, as my neck and shoulder are starting to suffer some twinges indicative of muscle…
erv, I don't know if it's just my machine but they seem to have shut down the server on your link so I can't read it. I'm guessing not good news though? :(
Oh no! The server died!
(I'm presuming the patient did as well, but I can't tell from the link.)
Hmm-- I can see the links okay, but yes, Evan died... I really wanted the viruses to help him...
Maybe they did -- I suppose eventually we'll know.
Abbie, I don't suppose you've ever worked a fatality? Spent an hour doing CPR [1], restarting the heart multiple times, drugs, IVs, ... and then the patient doesn't make it. It sucks, but it doesn't mean you didn't help.
[1] "Exhausting" doesn't come close.
The family is taking donations for an endowment in Evan's name at the local children's hospital. Maybe someday that'll buy perfected HSV-1 treatments for kids.
Well that sucks. :(
Has there been any word on using this treatment for other cancers, or are they still focused on melanoma and melanoma-derived ones?