txvoodoo says it better than I couldTo that I'd only add that an estimated 1 million (1,000,000) people in the U.S. have HIV/AIDS... and 30% of them don't know it. And people who don't know they have it not only aren't getting the treatment they need, they are more likely to be spreading the virus ( Read more... )

The New York Times has gone ga-ga over anonymous accusations against Iran, and the WaPo has followed suit. They're like that guy from Memento: they can't remember anything that happened more than ten minutes ago, and they need an enemy to pursue. So they will allow themselves to invent one when none exists ( Read more... )

Recently I linked the story about using the common cold virus against cancer. Last week I saw another awesome-sounding potential breakthrough, this one using a drug that already exists: A drug called DCA used to treat rare metabolic disorders that kills almost all cancers by reactivating cancerous cells' mitochondria, which then cause cell death ( Read more... )

Despite how the AP and FOX News were falling all over themselves to declare the Senate evenly split again, the word is that Senator Johnson (D) is recovering from his brain surgery without complications so far.

In 2002-2003, rates of the most common kind of breast cancer fell 15%. Researchers believe this may be due to women going off hormone ( Read more... )

Haven't been posting here much. Stuff keeps happening, and I keep watching it go by... I've kinda gotten out of the blogging groove. (I suspect the same is true of luna_k.) Holiday season and all that.

Among the things that have gone by unremarked on LR is World AIDS Day. Our last legally elected President, Bill Clinton, has brokered a deal for a ( Read more... )

Juan Cole has a great little tirade on the Bush administration today, in which demonstrates how divorced from reality Bush's "IslamistIslamic Fascist" rhetoric is.

Nor is it plausible that "al-Qaeda" could take over Iraq! The United States couldn't take over Iraq.
(emphasis original)
Ha ha. He also proposes, as others have ( Read more... )

Gorgeous day here in gayscenic Massachusetts... how's it going out there? Here, have some links.

Gays flee Iraq as Shia death squads find a new target. (Remember this the next time the executions of gays in Iran is brought up to innoculate us into accepting another war there. (Like Bush and Co. give a shit about gays anywhere.) Seriously, is ( Read more... )

Editor and Publisher is also reporting the story. It doesn't contain much we don't already know, other than an embedded AP reporter broke the story... and a couple other tidbits:

Iraqi police had been told about the killings three months ago. The U.S. contended the killings were by insurgents, until two or three soldiers spoke up.
Some of them ( Read more... )

From the AP: Small-Town USA Joins No-Smoking Trend. This makes me so happy.
LUVERNE, Ala. (AP) - If New York City can ban smoking in bars and restaurants, why not the town of Luverne ( Read more... )

Articles & posts that caught my eye tonight:

++ From HuffPo and The Nation: FNC Columnist on Big Tobacco Payroll. Oh, this is beautiful.

++ Speaking of tobacco, a new study found blacks are more likely to get lung cancer from smoking than whites or other races.

++ NYC is struggling with a diabetes epidemic; NYT did a great feature on this two ( Read more... )