Even though Sydney Leathers shamelessly outed NYC Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner as the politician who kept sexting after he got busted the first time, no one deserves this happening to them. Find out the story on why AVN halted porn production and how Sydney Leathers may have been exposed to HIV after the jump.
(Video) Little Girl Dying Of Cancer Gets Cured With HIV Virus?!?
In what is being called a miracle, a 6 year-old girl with a terminal case of leukemia was nearly dying when doctor’s recommended that she try a dangerous and controversial treatment to try to clear up the cancer. The doctor’s recommended she try an experimental treatment involving injecting a modified HIV virus into her bloodstream. This treatment is for patients who are extremely sick. So was she cured? Check out the video after the jump.
New Pill May Prevent HIV In Drug Users Who Inject
We are one step closer to a real cure for HIV/AIDS. A new study conducted in Thailand shows that Tenofovir cut the risk of infection in heroin, meth and other injection drug users by nearly 50%. Based on the findings, the CDC recommended that doctors consider prescribing Tenofovir to those who inject drugs. It blocks the virus from making copies and spreading through the body. In the U.S., Tenofovir is included in an AIDS drug called Truvada…which costs about $14k a year. We still have a ways to go, but breakthroughs like this definitely give us hope!
Could A Cure For HIV Finally Be Here? Scientists Say It’s “Months Away”!
This is HUGE! According to Danish scientists, an HIV cure that’s actually affordable is on the horizon…possibly arriving within the next few months! Human testing for the treatment is currently underway, after already proving successful in laboratory tests. 15 people are involved in the trial, with results expected in the second half of 2013.
(Video) WTF! 7,000 Dentist Patients Warned Of Potential HIV Exposure
Horrible. 7 thousand dental patients from Oklahoma are being urged to get tested for HIV and hepatitis after public health officials found evidence of practices that could have exposed patients to the viruses. The Oklahoma and Tulsa health departments said Thursday approximately 7,000 people who were treated at clinics operated by Dr. W. Scott Harrington could have been exposed to Hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, calling the dentist “a menace to public health.” Find out more below..
(PHOTO) NBA: This Picture of Magic Johnson Had Twitter Going Crazy!
I don’t know how I missed this over the weekend! Apparently some bored person thought it would be funny to pretend to retweet Magic Johnson and spread false information. The problem was the picture that was attached to the tweet. Everyone really thought it came from Magic — because it is a real of photo of him — BUT the photo was from years ago, not this past weekend (you’ll understand more when you see the picture and tweet). Twitter went crazy in reaction to the tweet. I wonder if the person who started the lie could get in trouble for this?! Photo and details after the jump…
