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Researchers Try to Solve the Mystery of HIV Carriers Who Don't Contract AIDS
More than half a million people in the U.S. have died from HIV infection , and more than a million currently live with the virus, but a relative handful of people infected with HIV never get treatment for it and never get sick from it.
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Squashing Malaria: Advances in Research and Prevention [Slide Show]
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Out of Africa: The Tobacco War's New Battleground
As nicotine use spreads across Africa, cancer-fighting groups are advocating for stringent smoke-free laws as tobacco companies lobby to expand in a growing continental market
The Color of Sin--Why the Good Guys Wear White
An Elemental Solution: Using Zinc to Stave Off Childhood Diarrhea in Developing Countries
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Obama lifts U.S. ban on foreign HIV-positive travelers
Zombie Creatures: What Happens When Animals Are Possessed by a Parasitic Puppet Master? [Slide Show]
Sick-clop: Ponies with the flu show how virus out-mutates vaccines
Global Child Immunizations at All-Time High, Despite Rising Costs
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Researchers Try to Solve the Mystery of HIV Carriers Who Don't Contract AIDS
Zombie Creatures: What Happens When Animals Are Possessed by a Parasitic Puppet Master? [Slide Show]
Renewed Hope for an AIDS Vaccine
Bumping Off Bedbugs without Poison
Retrovirus Linked to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Could Aid in Diagnosis
Does Inflammation Trigger Insulin Resistance and Diabetes?
Squashing Malaria: Advances in Research and Prevention [Slide Show]
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AIDS vaccine surprises scientists, proves partially successful
The Color of Sin--Why the Good Guys Wear White
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