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		<title>By: Tom</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Geack Says: &quot;Can we just all agree right now that any comment on a medical issue containing a link to a youtube video be automatically ignored?&quot;

Tom Says: youtube.com videos often come from sources more credible than (say) Fox News (Faux News/Fox Noise).  Here are links from credible peer-reviewed medical science journals.

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2510818

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19031451 

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121531612/PDFSTART

And note that 2.5 years later there is no follow-up by the NIAID, DAIDS, or ACTG.  The conflicts of interest are enormous.  HIV/AIDS is now a $20-30 Billion/year industry.  Inexpensive cures for early infections are condemned by the people who run the NIAID, DAIDS &amp; ACTG.  &quot;Money talks&quot;, while cures &quot;walk&quot; (walk away completely ignored).

What Nobuto Yamamoto, Ph.D. et al proved is that HIV destroys the carrier molecule (GcMAF) for the hormone vitamin-D3.  And that restoring that carrier molecule (GcMAF), early in someone&#039;s HIV infection, allows their immune systems to clear HIV - before HIV shuts-down their immune systems and allows all the microbes we carry (CMV, HPV, etc) to destroy those immune systems.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Geack Says: &#8220;Can we just all agree right now that any comment on a medical issue containing a link to a youtube video be automatically ignored?&#8221;</p>
<p>Tom Says: youtube.com videos often come from sources more credible than (say) Fox News (Faux News/Fox Noise).  Here are links from credible peer-reviewed medical science journals.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2510818" rel="nofollow">http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2510818</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19031451" rel="nofollow">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19031451</a> </p>
<p><a href="http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121531612/PDFSTART" rel="nofollow">http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121531612/PDFSTART</a></p>
<p>And note that 2.5 years later there is no follow-up by the NIAID, DAIDS, or ACTG.  The conflicts of interest are enormous.  HIV/AIDS is now a $20-30 Billion/year industry.  Inexpensive cures for early infections are condemned by the people who run the NIAID, DAIDS &amp; ACTG.  &#8220;Money talks&#8221;, while cures &#8220;walk&#8221; (walk away completely ignored).</p>
<p>What Nobuto Yamamoto, Ph.D. et al proved is that HIV destroys the carrier molecule (GcMAF) for the hormone vitamin-D3.  And that restoring that carrier molecule (GcMAF), early in someone&#8217;s HIV infection, allows their immune systems to clear HIV &#8211; before HIV shuts-down their immune systems and allows all the microbes we carry (CMV, HPV, etc) to destroy those immune systems.</p>
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		<title>By: Shveni Rastogi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Shveni Rastogi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Geack</title>
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		<dc:creator>Geack</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 13:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Can we just all agree right now that any comment on a medical issue containing a link to a youtube video be automatically ignored?  The quack medicine touts are getting tedious.</description>
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		<title>By: Kurt Lore</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kurt Lore</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 13:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry for my noobie question. Could you tell me what this blog template is? I truly love it. Or is it customized template, perhaps? I think it can be a decent option for Google ads as well. I’d like it if you are able\will let me know about it. Thanks.</description>
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		<title>By: stefano</title>
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		<dc:creator>stefano</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>cronic fatigue syndrom doctors in europe are unsing it from half 2010, the results are the most of cfs patients are regressing and some cured, i guess they will publish results soon

i am following their results on blogs/forums it is more than 100 patients on trial, the bad side is those doctors don t accept other patients than cfs infected ones

cfs makes immune system impairment similar to aids and the severe cases with many viruses like cmv, ebv and others at high titers so it is very good to see how potent the treatment is although CFS is much more difficult to treat than a single virus infection like hiv, hbv or hcv </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>cronic fatigue syndrom doctors in europe are unsing it from half 2010, the results are the most of cfs patients are regressing and some cured, i guess they will publish results soon</p>
<p>i am following their results on blogs/forums it is more than 100 patients on trial, the bad side is those doctors don t accept other patients than cfs infected ones</p>
<p>cfs makes immune system impairment similar to aids and the severe cases with many viruses like cmv, ebv and others at high titers so it is very good to see how potent the treatment is although CFS is much more difficult to treat than a single virus infection like hiv, hbv or hcv</p>
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		<title>By: DavidM</title>
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		<dc:creator>DavidM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>mrbighands, can you tell us which provider you contacted for the GcMaf you used?  Congratulations on your good results.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>mrbighands, can you tell us which provider you contacted for the GcMaf you used?  Congratulations on your good results.</p>
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		<title>By: mrbighands</title>
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		<dc:creator>mrbighands</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am still amazed of bureaucracy of health system! It took me almost a year to trace the original maker of GcMaf, there are many copy-cats out there that sell it cheaper these days but results are not the same. Anyway, it does work - i am just few weeks in, just got my blood tests back and it&#039;s freaking unbelievable! it does work like it described in Yamomoto&#039;s study. please make it widely available!!!! :(</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am still amazed of bureaucracy of health system! It took me almost a year to trace the original maker of GcMaf, there are many copy-cats out there that sell it cheaper these days but results are not the same. Anyway, it does work &#8211; i am just few weeks in, just got my blood tests back and it&#8217;s freaking unbelievable! it does work like it described in Yamomoto&#8217;s study. please make it widely available!!!! :(</p>
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		<title>By: Jennifer</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jennifer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 22:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Replying to Nick&#039;s comment, &quot;What will be much, much more interesting is when they figure out how to take the patients own bone marrow cells and use some gene therapy procedures to implant the necessary genes to express the cells in a way they are HIV resistant.&quot; ... there is a trial, using this exactly, going on in the Bay Area (CA) in which 10 people are involved.  So far the results &quot;are encouraging.&quot;   

Yes, those profiting from &quot;treatment&quot; will invest deeply in preventing any severe loss of revenue, regardless of the human toll...however let&#039;s hope in this specific battle of good and evil that good prevails.  I enjoyed your comment, Nick!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Replying to Nick&#8217;s comment, &#8220;What will be much, much more interesting is when they figure out how to take the patients own bone marrow cells and use some gene therapy procedures to implant the necessary genes to express the cells in a way they are HIV resistant.&#8221; &#8230; there is a trial, using this exactly, going on in the Bay Area (CA) in which 10 people are involved.  So far the results &#8220;are encouraging.&#8221;   </p>
<p>Yes, those profiting from &#8220;treatment&#8221; will invest deeply in preventing any severe loss of revenue, regardless of the human toll&#8230;however let&#8217;s hope in this specific battle of good and evil that good prevails.  I enjoyed your comment, Nick!</p>
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		<title>By: Tom</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Timothy Ray Brown&#039;s whole body radiation and chemotherapy had a fairly high chance, I&#039;ve heard as high as 1/3, of killing him.  And the odds of finding a MATCHING donor with TWO copies of the 32-base-pair deletion in the CCR5 gene for everyone who is HIV+ is not very likely.

I estimate that AZT (Retrovir/zodovudine) raked-in a minimum of $20 billion in profit (so far) for the four patent holders (pharmaceutical companies), dozens of drug wholesalers and tens of thousands of drug retailers.  Not bad for a drug that was discovered and clinically tested almost totally by the American tax payer.

Two Japanese teams, led by Japanese-American Dr. Nobuto Yamamoto, have cured 39 young, healthy, recently HIV-infected Japanese patients, according to a January 2009 paper in the Journal of Clinical Virology, and according to FOCIS (immunology) meeting abstracts/posters from 2006, 2007, 2008 &amp; 2009 AND according to a paper/poster presented at the 2010 International AIDS Conference, and according to a Russia Today TV interview with the author of the paper/poster Professor Marco Ruggiero.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4eMkdYhaZE

Although this is NOT a cure for AIDS,  it is far more &quot;suggestive&quot; of a cure for (early) HIV infection than whole body radiation, chemo- therapy and rare donor-matched bone marrow transplant, BECAUSE 39 people have been cured - as opposed to just one (Timothy Ray Brown).

Timothy Ray Brown&#039;s treatment cost many hundreds of thousands of dollars - perhaps close to a million dollars.  The safer Japanese early treatment costs several thousand, perhaps close to ten thousand dollars.

The problem with the Japanese treatment (GcMAF, a.k.a. Dbp-MAF, a.k.a. Globulin (Gc) Allele) is that it is naturally made by all humans - like factor VIII for hemophilia.  Therefore, it can NOT be patented.  And although factor VIII is now made by genetically engineered organisms, GcMAF has no backers given that all the money is in treatment, not cures.

Dr. Nobuto Yamamoto has a patent on a truncated version of GcMAF.  And his most recent (early 2010) FOCIS conference paper/abstract claims that, of the 24 recently HIV-infected patients cured, some of them were cured with the truncated (patented version) of GcMAF in as little as eight weeks.  But, a full peer-reviewed paper has yet to be published on this patentable treatment.  Note that Dr. Yamamoto is now 86 years old, and works out of his house.

No American clinical trials are being run on GcMAF - that can be found by GOOGLING the internet.

Worse, no American media organizations DARE to interview Dr. Yamamoto.  Far worse, no American HIV/AIDS organizations DARE to interview him - even those working and living just a few miles from his home.  Far, far, worse, American coverage of the 2010 International AIDS Conference purposefully ignored the announcement that Dr. Yamamoto had cured 39 young, healthy, recently-HIV-infected Japanese patients over the past 8.5 years.  Yet, his (one) peer reviewed paper and (many) FOCIS (Immunology) conference papers/abstracts are on the internet - for free or a small fee.

Rumors have it that the NIAID is funding both Dr. Yamamoto&#039;s and Professor Marco Ruggiero&#039;s work with GcMAF.  But, that work appears to be focused on cancer - as opposed to HIV.

In January 2010, the Southern University of Denmark published a paper in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta,  titled &#039;The glycosylation and characterization of the candidate Gc macrophage
activating factor&#039; indicating that they are working on GcMAF.  Denmark is home to the world&#039;s larest manufacturer of insulin.  Like GcMAF, insulin must be injected.  Novo Nordisk has the technology and know-how to make large amounts of GcMAF.

A company in Israel and a company in the Netherlands makes AND sells GcMAF.  But, there does not appear to be any formal clinical studies of their GcMAF.

Only the teams of Dr. Nobuto Yamamoto have years of clinical follow-up on their 15+24=-39 ex-HIV patients using THEIR GcMAF treatments.

The world waits... for clinical trials from an 86 y/o man (Dr. Yamamoto) who now works from his home, while toxic and non-curing AZT rakes-in tens of billions of dollars.

Given that AZT was discovered and developed with nearly 100% public funding, I would hope that those who now lead our public fight against HIV would support a KNOWN CURE (GcMAF) with the same support that they once gave AZT.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Timothy Ray Brown&#8217;s whole body radiation and chemotherapy had a fairly high chance, I&#8217;ve heard as high as 1/3, of killing him.  And the odds of finding a MATCHING donor with TWO copies of the 32-base-pair deletion in the CCR5 gene for everyone who is HIV+ is not very likely.</p>
<p>I estimate that AZT (Retrovir/zodovudine) raked-in a minimum of $20 billion in profit (so far) for the four patent holders (pharmaceutical companies), dozens of drug wholesalers and tens of thousands of drug retailers.  Not bad for a drug that was discovered and clinically tested almost totally by the American tax payer.</p>
<p>Two Japanese teams, led by Japanese-American Dr. Nobuto Yamamoto, have cured 39 young, healthy, recently HIV-infected Japanese patients, according to a January 2009 paper in the Journal of Clinical Virology, and according to FOCIS (immunology) meeting abstracts/posters from 2006, 2007, 2008 &#038; 2009 AND according to a paper/poster presented at the 2010 International AIDS Conference, and according to a Russia Today TV interview with the author of the paper/poster Professor Marco Ruggiero.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4eMkdYhaZE" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4eMkdYhaZE</a></p>
<p>Although this is NOT a cure for AIDS,  it is far more &#8220;suggestive&#8221; of a cure for (early) HIV infection than whole body radiation, chemo- therapy and rare donor-matched bone marrow transplant, BECAUSE 39 people have been cured &#8211; as opposed to just one (Timothy Ray Brown).</p>
<p>Timothy Ray Brown&#8217;s treatment cost many hundreds of thousands of dollars &#8211; perhaps close to a million dollars.  The safer Japanese early treatment costs several thousand, perhaps close to ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p>The problem with the Japanese treatment (GcMAF, a.k.a. Dbp-MAF, a.k.a. Globulin (Gc) Allele) is that it is naturally made by all humans &#8211; like factor VIII for hemophilia.  Therefore, it can NOT be patented.  And although factor VIII is now made by genetically engineered organisms, GcMAF has no backers given that all the money is in treatment, not cures.</p>
<p>Dr. Nobuto Yamamoto has a patent on a truncated version of GcMAF.  And his most recent (early 2010) FOCIS conference paper/abstract claims that, of the 24 recently HIV-infected patients cured, some of them were cured with the truncated (patented version) of GcMAF in as little as eight weeks.  But, a full peer-reviewed paper has yet to be published on this patentable treatment.  Note that Dr. Yamamoto is now 86 years old, and works out of his house.</p>
<p>No American clinical trials are being run on GcMAF &#8211; that can be found by GOOGLING the internet.</p>
<p>Worse, no American media organizations DARE to interview Dr. Yamamoto.  Far worse, no American HIV/AIDS organizations DARE to interview him &#8211; even those working and living just a few miles from his home.  Far, far, worse, American coverage of the 2010 International AIDS Conference purposefully ignored the announcement that Dr. Yamamoto had cured 39 young, healthy, recently-HIV-infected Japanese patients over the past 8.5 years.  Yet, his (one) peer reviewed paper and (many) FOCIS (Immunology) conference papers/abstracts are on the internet &#8211; for free or a small fee.</p>
<p>Rumors have it that the NIAID is funding both Dr. Yamamoto&#8217;s and Professor Marco Ruggiero&#8217;s work with GcMAF.  But, that work appears to be focused on cancer &#8211; as opposed to HIV.</p>
<p>In January 2010, the Southern University of Denmark published a paper in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta,  titled &#8216;The glycosylation and characterization of the candidate Gc macrophage<br />
activating factor&#8217; indicating that they are working on GcMAF.  Denmark is home to the world&#8217;s larest manufacturer of insulin.  Like GcMAF, insulin must be injected.  Novo Nordisk has the technology and know-how to make large amounts of GcMAF.</p>
<p>A company in Israel and a company in the Netherlands makes AND sells GcMAF.  But, there does not appear to be any formal clinical studies of their GcMAF.</p>
<p>Only the teams of Dr. Nobuto Yamamoto have years of clinical follow-up on their 15+24=-39 ex-HIV patients using THEIR GcMAF treatments.</p>
<p>The world waits&#8230; for clinical trials from an 86 y/o man (Dr. Yamamoto) who now works from his home, while toxic and non-curing AZT rakes-in tens of billions of dollars.</p>
<p>Given that AZT was discovered and developed with nearly 100% public funding, I would hope that those who now lead our public fight against HIV would support a KNOWN CURE (GcMAF) with the same support that they once gave AZT.</p>
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		<title>By: TeeDUK</title>
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		<dc:creator>TeeDUK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Right, House of Numbers, which was funded by Peter Duesberg&#039;s &quot;Rethinking AIDS&quot; organization although they never told anyone, and the film doesn&#039;t tell you either. Doesn&#039;t even tell you that many of the interviewees belong to this organization and deny HIV causes AIDS. The film&#039;s synopsis says: &quot;no cure is in sight&quot; - oh really? Tell that to Timothy Ray Brown, whose CD4 T cell are now in the normal range - why exactly would that happen if HIV didn&#039;t cause AIDS? I think even after there&#039;s a universally available cure, AIDS denialism will still be around.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Right, House of Numbers, which was funded by Peter Duesberg&#8217;s &#8220;Rethinking AIDS&#8221; organization although they never told anyone, and the film doesn&#8217;t tell you either. Doesn&#8217;t even tell you that many of the interviewees belong to this organization and deny HIV causes AIDS. The film&#8217;s synopsis says: &#8220;no cure is in sight&#8221; &#8211; oh really? Tell that to Timothy Ray Brown, whose CD4 T cell are now in the normal range &#8211; why exactly would that happen if HIV didn&#8217;t cause AIDS? I think even after there&#8217;s a universally available cure, AIDS denialism will still be around.</p>
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		<title>By: dsinla</title>
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		<dc:creator>dsinla</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>View the Award winning documentary &quot;House of Numbers&quot; to see why questions about this must be raised,  and why deeper issues about HIV and AIDS need to be
discussed. Lives are at risk. This is the first documentary ,with the worlds
foremost authorities, that  highlights  the fundamental  problems with HIV
testing, science, and statistics,  It sheds new light on a misunderstood
phenomenon.,  for which there is  still no cure. 
GO to bit.ly/hNB39y - bit.ly/gogKLZ  to see the trailer of &quot;House of Numbers&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>View the Award winning documentary &#8220;House of Numbers&#8221; to see why questions about this must be raised,  and why deeper issues about HIV and AIDS need to be<br />
discussed. Lives are at risk. This is the first documentary ,with the worlds<br />
foremost authorities, that  highlights  the fundamental  problems with HIV<br />
testing, science, and statistics,  It sheds new light on a misunderstood<br />
phenomenon.,  for which there is  still no cure.<br />
GO to bit.ly/hNB39y &#8211; bit.ly/gogKLZ  to see the trailer of &#8220;House of Numbers&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: amphiox</title>
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		<dc:creator>amphiox</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Too late, JT, it&#039;s already happened.

But seriously, there aren&#039;t enough HIV patients for HIV drugs to ever be anything more than a tiny, tiny drop in the bucket for Pharmaceuticals profit-wise.

These companies make their big bucks on statins and ACE inhibitors, and other drugs of this sort. Individually cheap medications that huge numbers of people over a certain age end up having indications for taking, for preventive rather than curative reasons necessitating continued usage for the remainder of their lives.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Too late, JT, it&#8217;s already happened.</p>
<p>But seriously, there aren&#8217;t enough HIV patients for HIV drugs to ever be anything more than a tiny, tiny drop in the bucket for Pharmaceuticals profit-wise.</p>
<p>These companies make their big bucks on statins and ACE inhibitors, and other drugs of this sort. Individually cheap medications that huge numbers of people over a certain age end up having indications for taking, for preventive rather than curative reasons necessitating continued usage for the remainder of their lives.</p>
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		<title>By: JT</title>
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		<dc:creator>JT</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Please tell me this is not going to turn into a rant on how physicians and drug companies invented HIV so they can get rich.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please tell me this is not going to turn into a rant on how physicians and drug companies invented HIV so they can get rich.</p>
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		<title>By: Julian</title>
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		<dc:creator>Julian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have to agree with nick.  It&#039;s something my friends and I have discussed a lot in terms of a cure for HIV:  The immediate resistance against it from drug companies, who are making a LOT of money off of HIV medications.  My altruistic side says that they would step aside for a cure to HIV and AIDS, but my more cynical side says that when it comes to big business and big money, no holds are barred.

If/when they figure out how to manipulate our own tissues via gene therapy/stem cells to produce T-cells lacking the CCR5 receptor, I think that will change things dramatically.  Wiping out one&#039;s immune system and performing a risky bone marrow transplant will not be the only option, and I hope that alternative methods of therapy are created (and not halted by fundamentalist government like we have seen recently in US history) as this opening of the door towards a cure widens.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have to agree with nick.  It&#8217;s something my friends and I have discussed a lot in terms of a cure for HIV:  The immediate resistance against it from drug companies, who are making a LOT of money off of HIV medications.  My altruistic side says that they would step aside for a cure to HIV and AIDS, but my more cynical side says that when it comes to big business and big money, no holds are barred.</p>
<p>If/when they figure out how to manipulate our own tissues via gene therapy/stem cells to produce T-cells lacking the CCR5 receptor, I think that will change things dramatically.  Wiping out one&#8217;s immune system and performing a risky bone marrow transplant will not be the only option, and I hope that alternative methods of therapy are created (and not halted by fundamentalist government like we have seen recently in US history) as this opening of the door towards a cure widens.</p>
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		<title>By: Scientific Truth</title>
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		<dc:creator>Scientific Truth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Silent Revolution in Cancer and AIDS Medicine
Heinrich Kremer, MD
http://tinyurl.com/39hk3ep

Now available translated from German to English for the first time, this book is a must-read for doctors, patients and anyone following the cutting edge of biology and immunology. With the blasting open of such doors of knowledge, the medical world will never again be the same. 

&quot;The knowledge this book conveys may revolutionize cancer and AIDS therapy in the coming years. After having read this book, no responsible doctor should continue to provide such harmful therapy to the patients in his/her care and trust. This book will inform them about the fatal mistakes of their previous therapies, of which until now they were the unwitting victims.&quot;

&quot;Additionally, this book is indispensable reading for the patient afflicted with cancer or AIDS. Herein for the first time, the exact reasons are revealed to the world why neither cancer nor AIDS must inevitably result in death. These two illnesses are the natural result of a systemic imbalance, which not only can be halted, but can also be healed.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Silent Revolution in Cancer and AIDS Medicine<br />
Heinrich Kremer, MD<br />
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/39hk3ep" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/39hk3ep</a></p>
<p>Now available translated from German to English for the first time, this book is a must-read for doctors, patients and anyone following the cutting edge of biology and immunology. With the blasting open of such doors of knowledge, the medical world will never again be the same. </p>
<p>&#8220;The knowledge this book conveys may revolutionize cancer and AIDS therapy in the coming years. After having read this book, no responsible doctor should continue to provide such harmful therapy to the patients in his/her care and trust. This book will inform them about the fatal mistakes of their previous therapies, of which until now they were the unwitting victims.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Additionally, this book is indispensable reading for the patient afflicted with cancer or AIDS. Herein for the first time, the exact reasons are revealed to the world why neither cancer nor AIDS must inevitably result in death. These two illnesses are the natural result of a systemic imbalance, which not only can be halted, but can also be healed.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Tim</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Regardless, this is fantastic news. Perhaps they can isolate the genetic qualities of these resistant people and figure out some sort of cure that isn&#039;t akin to flushing out your entire system.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Regardless, this is fantastic news. Perhaps they can isolate the genetic qualities of these resistant people and figure out some sort of cure that isn&#8217;t akin to flushing out your entire system.</p>
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		<title>By: nick</title>
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		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This treatment is also quite potentially damaging to the lucrative antiviral market that HIV patients are forced into, at a cost of many thousands of dollars monthly (yes, I know the current treatment is hugely expensive. It was also the first time and as we know, unless patent protected non-generic pills are involved, these things come down in price as the practice spreads). It&#039;s either pay that toll or 100% chance of death. So I can see why doctors around the world would come out against a 70% chance of full recovery from HIV. /joke

 &#039;“The Catch-22 here is that the best candidates for a cure, ideally, are people who are healthy” and don’t have leukemia.&#039; Great! What percentage of HIV patients also have leukemia? Small percent? Too bad they don&#039;t have conditions necessitating bone marrow transplants from HIV resistant donors. 

The side effects from the treatment were pretty bad, but so are the side effects of the antiviral treatments currently used to fight HIV (liver failure and neuropathy being some of the more dire). 

What will be much, much more interesting is when they figure out how to take the patients own bone marrow cells and use some gene therapy procedures to implant the necessary genes to express the cells in a way they are HIV resistant - we do have these techniques, however experimental, and hopefully they will converge. That should wipe out all the bone marrow matching issues. And the funny part is that neutered HIV viruses could be used for such gene therapies, as HIV is most adept at the one huge obstacle of gene therapy, namely getting genes into cells.

If we didn&#039;t have modern medicine, HIV/AIDS would have wiped out quite a large portion of some of our societies. Those who are evolutionarily resistant, of course, would survive and breed and make the species stronger. However, thanks to our technology, we can just make everyone resistant and our whole species stronger without all that suffering and death and what-not.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This treatment is also quite potentially damaging to the lucrative antiviral market that HIV patients are forced into, at a cost of many thousands of dollars monthly (yes, I know the current treatment is hugely expensive. It was also the first time and as we know, unless patent protected non-generic pills are involved, these things come down in price as the practice spreads). It&#8217;s either pay that toll or 100% chance of death. So I can see why doctors around the world would come out against a 70% chance of full recovery from HIV. /joke</p>
<p> &#8216;“The Catch-22 here is that the best candidates for a cure, ideally, are people who are healthy” and don’t have leukemia.&#8217; Great! What percentage of HIV patients also have leukemia? Small percent? Too bad they don&#8217;t have conditions necessitating bone marrow transplants from HIV resistant donors. </p>
<p>The side effects from the treatment were pretty bad, but so are the side effects of the antiviral treatments currently used to fight HIV (liver failure and neuropathy being some of the more dire). </p>
<p>What will be much, much more interesting is when they figure out how to take the patients own bone marrow cells and use some gene therapy procedures to implant the necessary genes to express the cells in a way they are HIV resistant &#8211; we do have these techniques, however experimental, and hopefully they will converge. That should wipe out all the bone marrow matching issues. And the funny part is that neutered HIV viruses could be used for such gene therapies, as HIV is most adept at the one huge obstacle of gene therapy, namely getting genes into cells.</p>
<p>If we didn&#8217;t have modern medicine, HIV/AIDS would have wiped out quite a large portion of some of our societies. Those who are evolutionarily resistant, of course, would survive and breed and make the species stronger. However, thanks to our technology, we can just make everyone resistant and our whole species stronger without all that suffering and death and what-not.</p>
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