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- keviniskool, on 06/29/2009, -13/+534What is this, the 20th time digg has cured AIDS?
- neureal, on 06/28/2009, -6/+268umm... that got TONNES of publicity (see below for just 4 examples)!
Also, it should be noted that there's not a feasible way that such a procedure could be rolled out on a large scale, so to call it a "cure" is misleading, IMO...
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE4 ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7726118.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/34485 ...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122602394113507555 ... - Duffalpha, on 06/29/2009, -6/+252We wont be happy unless Ron Paul does it himself...with legalized marijuana.
- Lavarock, on 06/29/2009, -8/+156This just confirms my view that stem cells are ***** MAGICAL.
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- ThreeDee912, on 06/29/2009, -5/+81I SENSE A NEW INTERNET MEME HAS BEEN BORN!
- piieerrrree, on 06/29/2009, -4/+74HI BILLY MAYS HERE WITH A CURE FOR STUPIDITY
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- Ultrace, on 06/29/2009, -3/+58Without the /s tag, I fear for peoples' ability to intuitively know this was a joke.
- inactive, on 06/29/2009, -7/+59this time they aren't just sure.
they're HIV positive. - gwolf, on 06/29/2009, -3/+53Curing one cancer does not = a cure to cancer. You can't give millions of people bone marrow transplants. Half would die of the procedure and there aren't enough donors who would be willing to put their own lives at risk to do it anyway. At best this is a promising research direction.
- inactive, on 06/29/2009, -23/+72If AIDS gets cured, how are we supposed to cleanse Africa of the black menace?
- ArgusWatch, on 06/29/2009, -2/+48Bone marrow transplant is not a cure it is an extremely risky operation with small chances of success.
- alpha88, on 06/29/2009, -0/+45While shooting the RIAA.
- xenuxenuts, on 06/29/2009, -1/+45The old standbys, war and famine, will have to do.
- fleyinberdy, on 06/29/2009, -0/+41This is exactly right. Leukemia is a good enough reason to nuke your bone marrow and then get a transplant. HIV, because of our ability to control it rather effectively with HAART, is not a good enough reason to subject yourself to this much risk. In the risk-benefit analysis, the risk generally appears to outweigh the benefit. As we get better with bone marrow transplantation, this may ultimately change. If so, then great.
- vsujohn2, on 06/29/2009, -2/+39If weren't not curing cancer/aids several times a week, we arent doing our job!
- raviu90, on 06/29/2009, -5/+41DIGG CURES AIDS YET AGAIN........AGAIN
- schnikies79, on 06/29/2009, -1/+37What the hell?
It was on every news station and every website for weeks! I even saw it on the front page of the local paper. - shafoplata, on 06/29/2009, -10/+41This poor doctor can't even get diggs much less publicity.
- cshilney, on 06/29/2009, -3/+33Its a good thing that we've been supporting stem cell research to the maximum.
Wait a sec... - gameuhnator, on 06/29/2009, -6/+35Expensive and the process leading to the cure is risky with a high mortality rate. You also need a donor with a specific gene mutation or those mutations cultivated from stem cells. A case where the cure is worse than the (long term) treatment.
- vbullinger, on 06/29/2009, -2/+30I'm not sure why everyone else buried him, but I buried him because he's a homophobic *****.
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..............\.............\... - m3arvk, on 06/29/2009, -2/+29No one seems to be impressed by the fact that they apparently cured a guy with AIDS. I think that's pretty ***** impressive.
- magic6435, on 06/29/2009, -5/+31Wait it was a joke? ***** I already dugg it up.
- Cerin, on 06/29/2009, -2/+26The Jews will just have to come up with something else.
- buddamus, on 06/29/2009, -3/+26Bill Hicks had it right
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdrcOGoszlE - costumemaker, on 06/29/2009, -2/+24wait wait wait.. you got it wrong. AIDS for gays, us whites made sickle cell for blacks, remember? Dont you come to the meetings anymore?
- logir, on 06/29/2009, -0/+22Still, this might be the clue that gets researchers going down the right path.
- bobbi21, on 06/29/2009, -1/+23... You are aware ppl with bone marrow transplants have to be on drugs their entire life to prevent rejection right? And as with the guy mentioned in the article, you get a huge increased risk of leukemia, which needs more meds.
Did you even read reyinberdy's post? Bone marrow transplants are dangerous and expensive. When you're at the end of your rope with cancer, sure you take the risk. When you have HIV and meds will keep you alives for decades? I think around 1/2 the ppl who get bone marrow transplants die in the first year due to complications (although that is in cancer patients who start off pretty unhealthy but still). So you can either take your meds and have pretty much a 99% chance of living 20 + years, or you can get a bone marrow transplant and have a 50% chance of living over 1 year, sure you may be cured of HIV if you live past that year but you got maybe a 10% chance of dying of leukemia now.
If you think this will eradicate HIV then you have no idea what this or HIV is about. This is a treatment too, not a vaccine, you can't eradicate a disease with a treatment, you can TREAT a disease with a treatment.
Bah so much wrong with your comment. - 2Deluxe, on 06/29/2009, -7/+28Yes, sure, pro-aids. just like pro-car accident and pro-schizophrenia.
He's getting dugg down because he's an idiot, I hope you get to experience it too. - Kevin108, on 06/29/2009, -0/+21How about a picture of a spider?
- JDLamb88, on 06/29/2009, -0/+20That's because he is magic.
- gameuhnator, on 06/29/2009, -2/+22The "shuffling" road is inconveneint, but isn't going to kill you immediately. The "cure" has a pretty good chance of doing that, ie the high mortality.
- LacY, on 06/29/2009, -0/+19Yeah... a sample size of 1 patient isn't exactly "groundbreaking". While it's promising, it has to be successful on a *much* larger scale to be considered as a "cure."
- ShnowDoggie, on 06/29/2009, -0/+18Only partially true. The risks are very high, but for those who survive, ~50%, the cure is far better. This also points to new avenues of possible treatment. In the case of bone marrow transplant the risk is rejection from a donor who has bone marrow that is just to different. What if the HIV patient could just have their own bone marrow altered to include the CCR-5 Delta-32 gene mutation? Now the marrow would match except for one change. I would think that the chances of rejection would be much less. if we can find a probe for bone marrow that can snip out just one gene and replace it with another (the CCR-5 Delta-32 gene mutation) then we may have a true cure. Doing this is not out of the question. Not at all easy at this point. But we have had huge advancements over the last decade. For instance, only a few years ago things such Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sperm sorting in humans was new. Now it is somewhat common. So this kind of medical advance is something that we can expect to be possible.
- Mystlyfe, on 06/29/2009, -2/+20@alpha88
No, while ***** the RIAA. - akula89, on 06/29/2009, -0/+17WHY IS THIS PLAYING IN MY HEAD IN THE VOICE OF 'BILLY MAYS'?
- neelshiv, on 06/29/2009, -0/+16People are born with aids. People get aids from sexual partners that they believe to be clean. People get aids as a result of rape.
- JDLamb88, on 06/29/2009, -4/+19Yes, it just pops up in you as soon as you have a gay thought, or if your skin is dark. I hope you get it through a blood transfusion.
- Bloodboiler, on 06/29/2009, -1/+16"[...] has significant risks of complications and a high mortality related to the procedure itself."
As a layman, I would expect cure to be something that is likely to work and unlikely to kill the patient. - LordVance, on 06/29/2009, -0/+15/southpark for those that missed it
- freshgrease, on 06/29/2009, -3/+18Pff. AIDS/HIV is so 80's. We're all about cancer here. /s
- tgc1, on 06/29/2009, -1/+15Cancer != AIDS
- Mawds, on 06/29/2009, -1/+15STILL WANT MORE! THE FIRST 500 ORDERS WILL RECEIVE THIS DETAILED BOOKLET EXPLAINING HOW ONCE YOU HAVE RID YOURSELF OF AIDS, YOU CAN AVOID RE-EXPOSURE THROUGH AN EASY 10 STEP PLAN.
AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT AND ORDER NOW! - ExoticKosher, on 06/29/2009, -1/+15I THINK YOU BETTER GIVE HIM A 2 FOR 1 DEAL
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