H.I.V. cure?…

  According to NYT, which I hate to use because of their paywall. I also dislike them for a few other reasons. A second patient (the Original is called the "Berlin Patient") has had the virus eradicated. The entire article can be found here. The news comes nearly 12 years to the day after the first …

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Vacations and Ground Hog Day…

No, not the day in February, that celebrates a meteorologic rodent, but the movie a few years back with Andie McDowell and Bill Murray. The TL;DR version of comedy is that Bill’s character is stuck on the same day, and it takes his correct approach to Andie McDowell’s character to break the spell. It is, …

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You can prescribe, can’t you?

  This was a recurrent question after the medicinal marijuana bill was passed last year. I have had people ask if just living here was enough, to which I politely laugh…   Proposition 2 (medicinal marijuana) in Utah has been fraught with challenges since it was voted in by popular vote. In Utah, the legislature …

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Sex, sex, sex…

  We suck at how we deal with sex. We are so prude, so afraid of ourselves and so pleasure adverse it borders on obscene. We also use this "adversion" (among other things) to excuse ourselves at teaching or learning about proper sexual function from a young age. The first wall the Karens and "religious" …

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