Showing posts with label HIV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HIV. Show all posts

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Entertainment: CELEBRITY TATTOO ARTIST IS HIV POSITIVE


Allhotnewz.blogspot.com just received a disturbing report. Apparently a VERY POPULAR British tattoo artist has caught the monster. But get this, dude is REFUSING to tell the people who he tatts up of his status.

For all those interested, the dude lives in Britain and his name is Henry Hate. Here�s how London�s Sun newspaper is reporting it:
Henry � who runs the Prick Tattoo and Piercing parlour in Shoreditch, East London � said he always wore gloves while etching with single-use needles.

He went on: �I don�t tell the general public.

�But some of my close customers who I have had for years are very aware.�

They include recovering drug addict Winehouse, 25, but he had not told junkie rocker Doherty, 30.

Henry explained: �We don�t have discussions like me and Amy have � There are a few celeb clients who have known for a while � but I don�t tell all my friends.�

We ain�t too sure how we feel about this. It seems like dude is taking precautions to not spread that package around. So maybe he�s right about not having to tell�

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Health: HIV patient cured with Bone Marrow Transplant

What would you call it-a miracle,magic or a bonus life gifted by the Almighty?It could be anything,but the fact is the patient is still in better condition now than he was a few months back.



As we know until now, HIV has no cure and has led to the deaths of over 25 million people.But Dr. Gero H�tter, 39--a brilliant physician in Germany , is the new hero who found out an AIDS cure, and the most astonishing thing is he is not an AIDS expert. He treated a 42-year-old American living in Berlin who had leukemia and needed a bone marrow transplant.



After a successful surgery, the patient is recovering but seems to be free from AIDS as well. Doctors have not been able to detect the HIV virus that causes AIDS in his blood stream for more than 600 days even after the patient stopped taking AIDS medications. The doctors said when a patient stops taking AIDS medication; the virus generally regenerates very rapidly, within weeks or days. However, they were amazed not to see any of it in the patient.The Doctor himself was surprised seeing the result when he replaced the patient's bone marrow cells with those from a donor who had a naturally occurring genetic mutation that renders his cells immune to almost all strains of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

If this method is successful for other patients, this type of gene therapy technique will be much better than the regular AIDS treatment which is quite expensive for patients and if this therapy technique works, then it will save thousands of lives.