First HIV-Positive Man Cured With Stem Cell Treatment

[yah_yaahh_b_tch]

Not that SRK would particularity care…

Stem Cell Transplant Cures HIV In ‘Berlin Patient’

On the heels of World AIDS Day comes a stunning medical breakthrough: Doctors believe an HIV-positive man who underwent a stem cell transplant has been cured as a result of the procedure.

Timothy Ray Brown, also known as the “Berlin Patient,” received the transplant in 2007 as part of a lengthy treatment course for leukemia. His doctors recently published a report in the journal Blood affirming that the results of extensive testing “strongly suggest that cure of HIV infection has been achieved.”

Brown’s case paves a path for constructing a permanent cure for HIV through genetically-engineered stem cells.

Last week, Time named another AIDS-related discovery to its list of the Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs of 2010. Recent studies show that healthy individuals who take antiretrovirals, medicine commonly prescribed for treating HIV, can reduce their risk of contracting the disease by up to 73 percent.

While these developments by no means prove a cure for the virus has been found, they can certainly provide hope for the more than 33 million people living with HIV worldwide. Alongside such findings, global efforts to combat the epidemic have accelerated as of late, with new initiatives emerging in the Philippines and South Africa this week.

I mean thats great news right? Hopefully in a few years we can all be whores without an ounce of remorse. Too bad my aunt wasnt around for this.

[Weeks]

if this is true and not wildly exaggerated, it’s pretty damn awesome

[yah_yaahh_b_tch]

Well in theory it makes sense. HIV is transmitted through the blood and leukemia is cancer of the bone tissue so if you take out all the bone material that promotes the creation of new infected blood and replace it with blood producing matter [stem cell transplant] then the new blood created is essentially hiv free.

[fishjie]

i got my hopes up when nasa announced it discovered an arsenic based life form only to have my hopes dashed when i went to dawkin’s and pz meyer’s sites.

so similarly, i will withhold any opinion until i see what the scientists have to say. media have a tendency to overhype shit.

[platinum_pinoy]

i got my hopes up when nasa announced it discovered an arsenic based life form only to have my hopes dashed when i went to dawkin’s and pz meyer’s sites.

so similarly, i will withhold any opinion until i see what the scientists have to say. media have a tendency to overhype shit.

Where’s weeks when you need to say a standard SRK slogan:

“I’m with Fishjie on this one.”

[Chachi]

This is how the zombie apocalypse starts.

[Don_Barracuda]

I mean thats great news right? Hopefully in a few years we can all be whores without an ounce of remorse. Too bad my aunt wasnt around for this.

…AIDS isn’t the only sexually transmitted disease

If it’s true, wonder how cheap it will be lol

[maxx]

This is how the zombie apocalypse starts.

helloooo i am legend

[Ichipoo]

Damn, that news just made my day. :amazed:

And a semi relevant video on the subject of Stem Cell Treatment for you to enjoy. =3

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[BullDancer]

From the tiny medical report included with the article, it doesn’t sound like they “cured” the person of the virus(as in the virus is still inside of him) but they managed to replicate immune system cells(it said CD4 T-Cells), which allows his body to effectively fight off disease.

Unless I interpreted it wrong, that’s the story…

EDIT: Which means viruses are still incurable and no extremely huge breakthrough took place imo… well no more aids symptoms I guess…

[SoVi3t]

that does it

i’m gonna fuck all those skanky bitches downtown I keep seeing but am afraid to fuck for fear of penis fall off syndrome

[stealthcat]

helloooo i am legend

Do not be misled by that Will Smith atrocity. I Am Legend is NOT about zombies.

[Rhio2k]

Do not be misled by that Will Smith atrocity. I Am Legend is NOT about zombies.

Uh, the zombie one was I Am Omega. Will’s was about a cancer cure mutating people into super-strong, fast, animalistic predators.

[Tanner]

From what I’m reading this isn’t a practical treatment at all. You have to find someone with the genetic mutation (1/1000 people) and they have to be a suitable donor for you which is very unlikely.

[ViciousSLASH]

They were vampires!

Not zombies!

GET IT RIGHT. And it was a good movie, Will Smith is the goddamned man.

[Saitsuofleaves]

Uh, the zombie one was I Am Omega. Will’s was about a cancer cure mutating people into super-strong, fast, animalistic predators.

Either way, what have we learned? Super Cures tend to cause apocalyptic nightmares. Get the Shotguns ready.

[NegroNinja]

Super Magic Johnson for 3!!! OOOOH he took a bite out of the the ref’s shoulder!

[yah_yaahh_b_tch]

…AIDS isn’t the only sexually transmitted disease

If it’s true, wonder how cheap it will be lol

Its currently the only one that kills you.

“you have AIDS” = cry

“you have herpes” = awww. that sucks. whos up for taco bell?

[ckrazy]

i got my hopes up when nasa announced it discovered an arsenic based life form only to have my hopes dashed when i went to dawkin’s and pz meyer’s sites.

so similarly, i will withhold any opinion until i see what the scientists have to say. media have a tendency to overhype shit.

Riding that bandwagon too.

[SoVi3t]

fuck will smith and fuck that terrible remake of a Charlton Heston classic. Seriously, his ending at least had feeling…fuck the new one
and fuck Will smith again

fuck him till he gets aids, then cure it apparantly

edit: no “Dr B’s sperm cures AIDS” from Specs? That boy doesn’t lurk properly