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National HIV/AIDS Advocate, Physician Joel Weisman Dies In California
Joel Weisman, "one of the first physicians to detect the AIDS epidemic and who became a national advocate for AIDS research, treatment and prevention," died on Saturday at his home in Westwood, Calif., the Los Angeles Times reports. Weisman was 66. Weisman was a general practitioner in southern California when in 1980 he first saw three ill gay men with a set of mysterious symptoms. He later contributed to the June 5, 1981 CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which "signaled the official start of the epidemic that the federal agency later named acquired immunodeficiency syndrome," according to the Times. Weisman was the founding chair of AIDS Project Los Angeles in 1983, helped organize the first dedicated hospital AIDS unit in Southern California and was an original board member of amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research (Woo, 7/23).

What Is Shingles? What Causes Shingles?
Shingles is caused by the herpes varicella-zoster (or simply zoster) virus. This virus also causes chickenpox. Most of us get chickenpox during childhood, but after we recover the virus remains inactive (dormant) in our nervous system. Our immune system stops the virus from becoming active. However, later in life it may become reactivated, causing shingles. Shingles is an infection of a nerve and the area of skin around it.
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Landmark Study For GSK's Cervical Cancer Vaccine Published In The Lancet
The final analysis of the largest efficacy trial of a cervical cancer vaccine is published today in The Lancet. The study, involving 18,644 women, confirmed GlaxoSmithKline"s Cervarix(R) is highly effective at protecting against the two most common cervical cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV) types, 16 and 18. The study also showed that the vaccine provides cross-protection against HPV types 31, 33 and 45, the three most common cancer-causing virus types beyond 16 and 18.
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Health Co-ops Emerge As Weak Substitute USA Today The primary attraction of health co-ops seems to be that they"re more politically palatable than the public option, not that they"re a better idea. In fact, there are plenty of reasons for skepticism (8/5). Opposing View: My Compromise Works USA Today One of the most divisive issues in health reform is whether Americans should have the option of a new government-run health plan. Despite its virtues, this so-called public option cannot get 60 votes in the Senate. Its inclusion could doom the larger health reform effort. As a result, I was asked to develop a compromise. My proposal would create health care cooperatives to provide competition for the private insurance industry. The co-ops would be a public-interest alternative, but consumer-controlled, not government-run (Conrad, 8/5). Working Across The Aisle For Health Reform The Washington Post We refuse to let partisanship kill health reform -- and we are proof that it doesn"t have to (Wyden and Bennett, 8/5). Stop Cycle Of Health Care Pain The Detroit News While Congress barters and bickers over competing health care proposals, tens of millions of Americans -- some of them our own family members, friends and neighbors -- don"t have adequate care available to them when they are sick. And the tragedy is getting worse (Gettelfinger, 8/5). Dems Vs. Dems The Wall Street Journal The news is how the political left and its lobbies are roughing up fellow Democrats who won"t get with President Obama"s government-run program. They"re treating the centrists who helped make them a majority as if they were Newt Gingrich without the social conscience (8/5). Obama Needs To Tell Us All To Slim Down The Times Union As if President Barack Obama does not have enough on his plate, he should tell us to stop piling more on ours. The time is right for a national address to look us squarely in the eye and say, "You"re fat!" (Jackson, 8/5). Health Habits Should Weigh Heavier In Debate The Dallas Morning News President Barack Obama and the Democrats should be on guard. But so, too, should ordinary Americans. Some doctors and insurance agents are saying what the politicians won"t say -- we"re doing a lousy job of taking care of our own health, even as we demand more care at less cost (Landers, 8/4). Jon Stewart Interviews Henry Waxman The Daily Show Henry Waxman"s goal of health care reform is simple, but the solutions turn it into a morbidly obese bill (8/4). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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